CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Movable Type, Mnemonic

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Test : tutorial on october 1st - 50 minutes. Lecture, textbook and readings - classes 1,2,3 up to today. Core themes : co-constitution, suppression of radical potential - e. g. computers have potential to share les - suppressed by having to pay for things. Ideology : a coherent set of social values, beliefs and meanings ; the values, beliefs and meanings of the dominant class (placement in social hierarchy - economic) Primary oral culture : sacred, immediate, highly skilled, mnemonic devices, dialogic, conservative, situational, homeostatic (no writing at all, only speaking) Writing/script : a coded system of visible marks whereby a writer could determine the exact words that the reader would generate from the text set of symbols that can be encoded and decoded. Pictographic : a writing system that relies on the creation of pictures (e. g. hieroglyphics) Typographic : moveable type : printers, moveable type. Phonetic alphabet : sound alphabet - the sound of the words.