CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Arpanet, Cern, Minitel
Document Summary
Some ways of thinking about tv and media in general. Tv tells us what to think about, what we"re going to think about. Functionalist (tv gives us exactly what we need eg. news because we need news) Tv companies and news channels determine the news we hear. Still, there are some new things about new media . Democratization or control by powerful elites (or both)?\ Anybody can make media that can get millions of views. Old media can get changed/incorporated into new media (newspaper"s can be read on the internet) The military invented the internet and still uses it for research. Minitel in france 1978-80 to 2012 (10 million users still in 2009)
