CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Scantron Corporation, Penny Press, World'S Columbian Exposition
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Midterm exam: understand main points from assigned reading, content of lectures. Where and when the events/artifacts/developments in media history that we have considered occurred and what their significance is: format (1hr 45min) Multiple choice (heavily weighted) scantron [a few questions on ong] Explain the significance of the development of phonetic writing. The telephone: 1870s: bell and gray, 1877 first commercial operations like the telegraph, a (cid:862)(cid:374)et(cid:449)orked(cid:863) te(cid:272)h(cid:374)olog(cid:455) Becomes more useful when there are more people on the network. Jobs are now created around the telephone (ex secretaries) Social distance was reduced took (cid:1008)0 (cid:455)ears for (cid:1008)0% (cid:862)pe(cid:374)etratio(cid:374) rate(cid:863) Adoption rate into the market was very slow. The (cid:862)pe(cid:374)(cid:374)(cid:455) press(cid:863: before the 1830s: annual subscription; partisan or special interest niche audience. Was not what we would call news in todays society. (cid:272)a(cid:373)e i(cid:374) the (cid:373)ail, that(cid:859)s (cid:449)h(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) are titled that (cid:449)a(cid:455) (e(cid:454) globe and mail, national post, etc: 1833 benjamin day, new york sun: individual copies, advertiser subsidized; mass audience.
