Tuesday, June 10, 2008

My Notes From Lecture 4

Old Communication Technologies

Walter Benjamin - German, Peace activist, around the time of WW2, he believed mass media "dumbed down" the spirit of high art - this is what he means when he talks about aura.
Rock Art
Trading Culture of Ugarsit developmed the first Alphabet - 1500BC.
Old Tehnologies rangeing through print, telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, cenima, television, video. More information such as who was the inventor and when was it invented can be found on the Learning@Griffith site or send me a request.
semiotics and Pragmatics were also a topic in this lecture - briefly they are about the relation of signs.

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