CCT109H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Darpa, Hypodermic Needle Model, Wireless Telegraphy

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

Document Summary

Polysemy - capacity for a sign to have multiple meaning. Structure - societal norms that will restrict you from doing whatever you want. Social construction of technology - technology does not determine human action, but rather, human action shapes technology. Technological determinism - society"s technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values. Political economy - political/ economic theory, that gives economic freedom to markets to regulate human affairs. Writing - a system of visible marks where the writer could determine the exact words the reader would generate from text. Typographic - art/technique of arranging text to make written language readable, and appealing when displayed. Pictographic - icon/text that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. Cuneiform - cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient sumerians of. Clay tokens - earliest known writing for record keeping. System of counting using small clay tokens. (eg.