SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Daily Courant, Louis Daguerre, Telegraphy

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Chapter 12 - technology & media. Thursday, november 26, 2015. Practical application of scientific principles to improve human life. Modernization, calculability, taming of risk through science. Risks arise from processes of science and technology. Influence of military and government on technology. Accidents that occur inevitably through unpredictability because of the very complexity of modern technology. Print, radio, television, and other communication technologies that reach many people. Media: communication does not take place through face- to- face interaction but it instead mediated through technology. First daily newspaper (london daily courant) 1989 world wide web (berners- lee) Commercial tc (1931 in canada) Arpanet (us department of defense) Centres of learning, informed citizenry. Coordinating the operation of (post)industrial societies. Encourages users to be digital collaborators. Users, consumers, audiences assume hybrid role as producers. Blogs, web pages, videos, wikis, etc. Consumption of others as point of reference for how we consume media. Integration of new and old technologies.