Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Sumer, Cultural Homogenization, Socratic Method
Document Summary
Historical relationship between society and technologies of time and space. Societies were not spread out very far, there wasn"t really much imperial rule. They were contained and limited to their geographic scope. It matters if something was written on stone or papyrus. Some media are more geared towards a time-bias. Those societies would be more interested in history, less on space, gaining more territory. The mafia: everything was done face to face, very little was written down for obvious reasons. Hierarchical social order in the sense of a priest class in babylonia, the sense of controlling what is appropriate knowledge and what is not. These societies have the potential to be democratic. They"re prone to being challenged by other societies that rely on space-biased media. Time biased societies are susceptible to this challenge. They are vulnerable to light media challenge. Natives in na at the time of early european colonization.