RTV 3405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Zoopraxiscope, Harpo Marx, Cinematograph

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Telecommunication
• Course: RTV 3405
• Professor: Selepak Andrew

Document Summary

Television (by definition): the electronic delivery of moving image from a source to a receiver. A system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. Television (in reality): commercial industry, political institution, textual form, cultural representation, technological medium, everyday practice. Technological determinism: technological determinism: the belief that technological development leads to social and cultural change, technological developments follow a predictable path, impacts of technology are inherent in itself. Can be utopian: an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities. The form of media determines the message that is. Tribal age: oral communication, based on all five senses, but auditory first. Print age: sight became most important sense, huge impact on how we think (linear processing) own intrinsic effects which are its unique message. Each medium, independent of the content it mediates, has its.