Early writing
Where do hieroglyphs come from?
Egypt
Where were books copied and stored before universities existed?
Monasteries
Who invented the printing press?
Johannes Gutenberg
What was the main advantage of the telecomm era?
Distance stopped being a barrier to communication
What is mass media?
Communication designed to reach large audiences
What writing system did Germanic tribes use in Northern Europe?
Runes
What does manu mean in the word manuscript?
Hand
What was the main advantage of the printing press?
Books could be mass produced
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What do the television and radio require in order to work?
Radio waves
Name one of the two forms of writing that came from Mesopotamia.
Cuneiform
What was the first university in Europe?
Bonus points for the date it opened
Oxford
1096 AD
What rose as a result of the printing press?
Literacy in Europe
What were messages translated into before being sent via telegraph?
Morse code
What is a form of mass media that does NOT require radio waves?
Film or newspapers
What was the first alphabet to use symbols to represent individual sounds instead of whole words?
Phoenician alphabet
What material were most manuscripts written on?
Parchment (animal skin)
Why were books expensive before the printing press?
They were difficult to produce
What was the job title for both morse code translators as well as for people that moved phone wires to connect calls?
Operators
What does it mean for a technology to be ubiquitous?
A technology has become widely adopted by most people in a culture or time period
Around what year did writing first begin to pop up in the ancient world?
3500 BCE
What job did a rubricator have in a monastery?
Added color to headings or important letters
Finish the sentence:
The printing press fundamentally changed humanity's relationship with ______ and _______.
Communication and knowledge
What was every message converted into in order to be sent in the telecomm era?
Electricity
What did people realize about mass media after a decade or so?
It could be used to influence culture and thought