COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
Spring 2008 -- SPCM 280, Prof. Sandvig
 
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January 16, 2008

Major Section Begins: Part I: FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS


Lecture: What is comm tech and where does it come from?

Key concepts: demand-pull, marketing-push, internalism
Examples: the one-minute timeline of communication technology, the riddle of the Yir Yoront and the bark canoe, Cook and Wheatstone's invention of the telegraph


Textbook: C&T Ch. 1: Progress

Key concepts: the machine in the garden, evolution, the sublime


Textbook: C&T Ch. 8: Defining Technology


Announcement: The link to Wednesday's online reading is now fixed!


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