MDSC02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Romance Film, David Holbrook, O. J. Simpson Murder Case
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Transportation systems advanced railroads and oceans became interconnected. Steam ships connected europe to the us through connection of atlantic ocean. Communication across vast distances became easier the telegraph developed in the 1830s; by the1840s samuel morse"s (1791-1872) inventions revolutionized long-distance communication. 1888: the first coin-operated public telephone was created. 1894: guglielmo marconi invents wireless telegraphy; 1901 he sends a radio signal across the atlantic. 1897: general electric creates a publicity department. (see fang, irving. Communications timeline in (boston & oxford: focal press, 19a. History of mass communications: six information revolutions 97), pp. Become connected to their colonies, and send information. No longer need to do face-to-face interactions. John carey: before the telegraph, business relations were personal; that is, they were mediated through face-to-face relations, by personal correspondence, by contacts among people who, by and large, knew one another as actual persons (carey, technology and. Ideology in communications as culture, 1989, p. 205.
