A M S D📸 – Eleanor Luttrell

01/10/18
History of the Media is all about how far we’ve come from sending letters to sending emails, from walking to the shops to buying something to ordering it online.

In today’s lecture we focused on Media and the Myths that lay behind it. We focused on Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual assault. He used the idea of rhetoric in court to tell his story. Rhetoric is using speech to convince or persuade – a combination of the science of logic and the ethical branch of politics.

Language and Semantics
Etymology – How words change overtime, e.g. awful – deserving of awe OR girl – young person of either sex.
Nominative Determinism – Hypothesis that historically people were known to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names ~ JUNG & FREUD 1994
SIMON BARRON COHEN 1999 – Teaching children with autism to mind read ~ “Social media is now our contact”.
YUVAL NOAH HARAN – “Common myths only exist in the collective human imagination”.
BRIAN FRIEL – “The truth lies, not in public facts, but private fictions”.
JOHN MILTON – Paradise lost (1608 ~ 1674).
* He was against royalty.
* He was comparatively close to the era of Shakespeare.
* He raised the issue of constraints on the press.

Age of participation
* Amazon launched 1995, July. This was a book retailer to start with.
* They introduced a mobile phone 2015 but this was discontinued.
* Online sales model – too much diversification, closed in 2018, September.
* 3,500 down to 800 stores, and they’re still closing many more as of now.

SUMMARY:

How did publications come into being?
* Transmission of ideas into language ~ drawing to writing.
* The development of written documents, tablet, scrolls and books and their uses.

How did books reach readers?
* Changes that led to the inception of printing and mass communication.
* The function of books.
* The rise of the author and publisher and the library.
* The growth of mass production and sales – mass education.

What do readers make of them?
* Development of eInk and eReaders.
* Death of the book and the eBook.
*How we comprehend the text.

THESE NOTES ARE FROM MY WEEK 1 LECTURES AND SEMINARS.
MAIN FEATURED IMAGE IS FROM http://www.pinterest.com.

 

 

People in recent years have stopped visiting many historic buildings, with numbers dropping lower each year. Below is a list of reasons as to why people may not visit there anymore:

• People can now read about them online rather than go out of the house, which shows how we’re becoming lazier due to social media and the internet.
• It might depend on the type of history, for example someone may not want to go to a historic place that has negative connotations due to what happened there.
• People within certain religions also may not want to visit war memorial sites due to past events.

 

It’s important we do go to historic buildings and places. For instance, loads of children are now missing out on seeing them, when in actual fact, historical travel can help children understand hard concepts, as well as help you to understand the importance of the accomplishments of Man Made things.

Going to view historic buildings can help us to see the bigger picture, to understand and realise how times previously were. This helps with our knowledge and also help us to realise how much better life is now to what it has been like.

Sapiens is a text explaining mainly how in past years people have relied solemnly on crops and wheat to make a living, people worshipped the little things that nobody really takes notice of today. It explains how we may take things for granted now with the new advanced technology and how we don’t have to work as hard to get what they needed to work for.

However, the text also suggests how we’re still quite similar to what past generations were like. This is suggested with “the pursuit for an easier life resulted in much hardship, and not for the last time”, which relates to modern life, how people go for harder jobs, for better pay and a good life.

This applies to the module because we are now blinded from the roles people used to do and work hard for to earn a living, whereas in some cases we seem to get life handed to us on a plate with the new advanced technology.

Media: Media is the mass production of communication, used through television, broadcasting, instant messaging, social media etc. It is a developing process that has massively improved throughout many years, yet also could arguably have made people lazy due to new advantages.

History: History is the past that we can study, particularly in human affairs. History is what we use as reasons to how we are today. Not only this, history is usually connected by one person or thin that we use to blame for what has caused something in previous events. From the extract “Sapiens” Chapter 5, you can see it’s based upon the Agricultural Revolution, calling this history’s ‘biggest fraud’, which is easily seen due to people in the past relying only on wheat and cops to survive,