CMN 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Alain De Botton, Clay Shirky, Google News
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Lecture #5: newspapers, networks, telegraphs and mail feb. 15, 2017. Keywords: electricity and electromagnetism, networks, codes, technological systems, Industrialization, inventor-entrepreneurs, magnates and monopolies, crisis and control, time- The idea of sedation, rebelliousness, and emancipation and the idea of the book. Gutenberg, movable type and the printing press. The book, rebellion, emancipation, and reformation: from scribal scarcity to disruptive text. Sedition and pamphlets: martin luther, 16c social networks & the protestant. Press as movable property (subversive material) but no real free press", though institutional controls not centralize. Index of prohibited books (catholic church): the attempt to control this new technology - no printing, selling, purchasing of subversive material. Technology is produced, but then is always trying to be controlled. 500 year business model - the publisher decides. Moved from medieval script to now geometry. Material and commercial objects, produced for profit and sent in search of readers.
