Week 7 S10
From INLS 490
Week 7
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[edit] Video
- What Mr. Bell had in mind
- Far speaking
- We learn about the Telephone
- Telephone and telegraph
- AT&T - Reach out and Touch Someone
- Radio Shack cell phone
- Cisco - Telepresence
- - Apple - iPhone Facebook
[edit] Notes
- Mid Term Exam
- 1:15 minutes
- Choose 3 out of 4 comprehensive questions
- Open book, open notes, no Google
- Mid Term Exam
- This Week's Del.icio.us links
[edit] Week 7 Organization
6:15-6:30 News, Events 6:30-7:15 Standage Discussion 7:15-7:30 Break 7:30-8:15 CMC Dinner Theater 8:15-8:45 Presentations
[edit] Week 7 Material
[edit] Standage, The Victorian Internet
- "Spies and criminals are invariably among the first to take advantage of new modes of communication. But lovers are never far behind"
- First marriag over telegraph in 1848
- Could the Telegraph "impede the course to true love". Where have we heard this before?
- Cost and lack of secrecy meant telegraph use was not mainstreamed - however, operators utilized the networks.
- Telegraph operators and personal messages
- Operators were a highly prized skilled prfession; operators existed in a highly hierarchical society.
- Finest operators worked in cities, new operators worked in rural areas.
- Despite lack of richness and cues, operators developed a deeply personal form of communication.
- Operators and signal styles
- Operators used signatures to identify self - we might think of this as similar to the avatar.
- Operators also knew each other by style - the nature of transmission
- Operators learned each other's style, leading to more efficient communication. Early Social Information Processing.
- Use of the lines for interpersonal communication
- Operators would fill lines with interpersonal communication during off-hours
- Scores, weather, financial information and personal messages would be passed. What does this remind us of?
- Operators would also engage in group chat, where many operators would join in a large discussion network.
- Gender and Telegraph Operators
- 1876 1/3 of telegraph operators were female
- Operators were segregated by gender
- Despite segregation, hierarchy, rules prohibiting fraternization, many relationships were developed over the wires.
- What is the CMC interpretation of interpersonal communication via telegraph lines?
- Similarities to chat, text, etc? Differences?
- The Telegraph and Global Culture
- "Thanks to the telegraph, the general public became participants in a continually unfolding global drama, courtesy of their newspapers, which were suddenly able to report on events on the other side of the world within hours of their occurrence"
- The telegraph shifted global perceptions through increased communication reach and speed
- In 1845, newspaper international coverage was 6-8 weeks old - length of time it took for messages to be passed via steamship
- The telegraph's second message "Have you any news?"
- Intercontinental telegraph transmission
- 1858 - earliest cables were used for global news transmission
- 1859 - Reuter provides his global business information services
- Effect of the telegraph on global policy, war and peace - an impact impossible to gauge.
- Pushback against the telgraph
- The bias towards international coverage of news led some small newspapers to suspend telegraph service.
- Earliest pushbacks against the globalization of culture and society.
- "The rapid distribution of news was thought to promote universal peace, truthfulness and mutual understanding."
- Analogies to internet culture.
[edit] Presentations
- Julia - Goodreads
- Matt - MakeOutClub
