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Overview of Unit 1
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Unit One Overview
Topic
CENTRAL QUESTIONS
1. How do scholars define what media are?
2. How are media related to the wider social and historical contexts in which they are embedded?
3. And what are some of the main concepts that are important to consider when studying media?
Coin-in-the-Slot Phonograph, 1877
First Film Screening, 1895
Radio and the Algerian revolution, 1950s
COMMUNITY
ALIENATION
It is “a mistake to write broadly of "the telephone," "the camera," or "the computer"... "the Internet" and "the Web" – naturalizing or essentializing technologies as if they were unchanging, "immutable objects with given, self-defining properties" around which changes swirl, and to or from which history proceeds. Instead, it is better to specify telephones in 1890 in the rural United States, broadcast telephones in Budapest in the 1920s, or cellular, satellite, corded, and cordless landline telephones in North America at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Specificity is key. … Consider again how fast digital media are changing today. Media, it should be clear, are very particular sites for very particular, importantly social as well as historically and culturally specific experiences of meaning.
- LISA GITELMAN, "MEDIA AS HISTORICAL SUBJECTS" (8).