MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Smoke Signal, Traffic Reporting, Orality
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Medium is the singular of the word media. A medium is an intervening substance through which something is conveyed or transmitted. (the form. Smoke signals are an older from of (media) medium. Mass media. (media that is reaching a large number of people) Internet and social media has disrupted mass media. We can only study what is left behind. Contemporary media and communications technologies as extensions of basic, innate, human communications capacities that are a continuation of forms of ancient human communication technologies that include speech, gesture, drama, and social ritual of kinds (roland) Non-print sources. quipo- series of nodded chords, in chords are records. Direction of chords. ( conveyed different messages) quipo is flexible and light. Spanish come and suppressed the inca from producing inca. 3 problems related to the study of media history: methodology- how you study a thing, how to study it. Historians: chronology. (how far back do we go)
