04:189:102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Barter, Prime Time Access Rule, Electronic Publishing

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:102
• Professor: Alptug

Document Summary

Media and culture: mass communication in a digital. Three major historical developments in tv"s early years helped shape it: 2. the wresting of content control fro advertisers. 3. the sociocultural impact of the infamous quiz-show scandals. Cathode ray tube: combined principles of the camera and electricity; method of encoding images at a transmission point and decoding them at a reception point. Scanning disk: developed by paul nipkow; large at metal disk that separated pictures into pinpoints of light that could be transmitted as a series of electronic lines as it rotated. Each small hole scanned one line of a scene to be televised. Television"s invention included patents battle between two independent inventors: Zworykin invented the iconoscope, the rst tv camera tube to convert light rays into electrical signals. In 1927 farnsworth transmitted the rst electronic tv picture by rotating a straight line scratched on a square of painted glass by 90 degrees.