week 1 & 2
This term or idea describes technologies whose political consequences arise not by design but because they demand specific forms of social organization to function.
What is "inherently political?"
Refers to what media do, and to what we do with the media; actively creating a symbolic and cultural space in which meanings are created and communicated beyond the constraints of the face to face interactions
What is "Mediation?"
This consequence of the development of printing led to new senses of individuality, and increase in literacy, new ideas about legitimate authority, and new forms of commercial trade
What is the "separation of knowledge from the speaker?"
It once meant “Does the recording perfectly match the live performance?” but later evolved to mean staying true to an artist’s idea.
What is "Fidelity?"
This event led the US government to order all amateurs to close down and dismantle their stations. To accelerate the process, local police searched for and seized independent stations and amateur radio and its frequencies were banned for public use.
The Zimmerman Telegram
refers to an action potential, that is, to what an individual or organization with a particular purpose can do with a technology or information system.
What is a "technological affordance"
A theory that suggests the form of a technology, not the content it carries, has the biggest impact on human behavior and society.
What is McLuhan's "The Medium is the Message?"
In general, the more significant and world-evolving effects of this invention are the standardization of knowledge and the elimination of craftsman labor.
What are the two great results of the invention of mechanical printing?
encouraged by commercial imperatives and modeled after those used by telegraph operators, this invention led moved the experience of music from a public practice to an individual practice - an effect that today blurs the lines between public and private social space.
What are "headphones?"
An effect of the culture of amateur radio, ideas about who radio hobbyist are, their temperament, social status, and role in the future has informed contemporary ideas of the ideal entrepreneur
What is the recharacterization of young male masculinity?
Reforming a national identity, the reconstruction of post war “normal,” an interconnected communication infrastructure, and the promotion of suburban America were a few of the goals of this technology
What is Television?
By collapsing these are the two fundamental barriers, technologies like the telegraph, telephone, broadcasting and the internet dramatically change how we communicate and in the process reshape how we understand the world.
What are (the annihilation of) time and space?
This form and practice of belief was explicitly modeled after the telegraph's ability to receive remote messages.
What is 19th century Spiritualism?
Problems with recording the many musicians that make up an orchestra simultaneously, the limited space of the recording medium, and the focus on 'fidelity" all contributed to the development of this art form
What is the "pop song?"
They include politics moving from the public to the private, information and news becoming available to everyone on an equal basis, introducing ideas one might not seek out on one's own, learning about events as they happen, and the establishment of centralized commercial networks, the "authoritative" voice.
What are the technological affordances of radio?
describes routinized types of behavior which consist of several elements, interconnected to one other: forms of bodily activities, forms of mental activities, 'things' and their use, a background knowledge in the form of understanding (discourses), know-how, states of emotion and motivational knowledge used to understand the role of media in our lives.
What is "Media as Practice?"
a systematic and analytical thought process that follows a known step-by-step progression of logic that evolved with the adoption and domination of print and print culture
What is linear thinking?
A consequence of the telegraph, the phenomena introduced society to instantaneous communication, mass centralization of communication, new economic practices and imperatives, and a new understanding of "presence" in the practice of communication
What is "the separation of communication from transportation?"
Editing – cut and splice, overdubbing, Multi-track, Home Recording, “painting,” and “instant playback” are significant practices that have changed our understanding to the world around us.
What are the technological “affordances” of magnetic tape?
One effect was its power to organize mundane everyday lives in patterns of time. This organization was explicitly gendered and served to reinforce normative roles within the home and in public/political life
What is the early TV programming schedule?
A media practice that orders other types of mediated and non- mediated practices because of the privileged circulation of media representations and images of the social world. Yelp is one example.
what is an "anchor" media practice?"
An area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion, influence political action that is outside the influence of the State or Market. The development of this space has been traced to 18th century bourgeois coffee house's by Jurgen Habermas.
What is the "Public Sphere?"
This technology imposed an expansive transformation of the modern city by enabling the construction of skyscrapers, new street construction, and the spatial organization of urban life that facilitated its use.
What is the telephone?
in the wake of the Titanic disaster, this was first governmental oversight that tried to rationalize the use of the electromagnetic spectrum.
What is the 1912 Radio Act.
Advertisers feared this device would make their ad less effective, which in turn threatened the profitability of the Networks. It also introduced the idea of "surfing" and both reaffirmed and challenged gender roles and status within the home through its use.
What is the TV remote?