COM 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Printing, Protestant Reformation, Written Language
9 Nov 2018
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Eras in communication: one of the recurring themes is that when you change communication technology, other things change too such as society and industries. It also changes history and the ability of ideas to flow to more people. For example: oral communication (some cultures still oral only: when there is no writing communication, only oral, many words can be lost in translations and stories change as they pass through people. Another disadvantage is loosing your culture and your history since its not written: written language (circa 3200 bce, pri(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g press (cid:894)cir(cid:272)a 1(cid:1008)(cid:1009)(cid:1007) i(cid:374) europe(cid:895) gute(cid:374)(cid:271)erg"s i(cid:374)(cid:374)o(cid:448)atio(cid:374): mo(cid:448)a(cid:271)le type protesta(cid:374)t. Reformation took place because of the printing place: gutenberg revolution. Labor was expensive: short supply of books: growing demand among literate merchant class, the printing press made printing economically viable, he printed a bible first. Its such an important advance because it opened the door to quick communication and made people more connected to things happening around the world.
