describe the sea metaphor in context of the telegraph
in a sea of information there was very little of it to use
An early form of photo
Daguerreotype
What is the name of the chapter?
The Peek-A-Boo World
what were the two US states that Postman used in his example about communication across borders
Maine and Texas
A form of photo from which any number of duplicates can be made
A negative
The _____ ______ made news amusing rather than just hearing or reading about it in a boring way.
Crossword Puzzle
list at least 3 characteristics of the telegraph from the book/presentation
irrelevance, impotence, incoherence, novelty, interest, curiosity
The word used by Postman to correct Daguerre's use of "Reproduce"
Clone
Finish the question: Does television shape culture or merely ____ it?
Reflect
how many years after the first telegraph line was the Associated Press founded
4
Concepts an image cannot deal with
Abstract
The purpose of television is simply ____
For entertainment
Finish the quote from the book: “The telegraph introduced a kind of public conversation whose form had startling characteristics: Its language was the ...
language of headlines
Astronomer credited with coining the term "Photography"
Sir John F. W. Herschel
What is 'A Peek-A-Boo World' a metaphor of?
The world of decontextualized information