Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

phonographtinfoil wrapped around a metal cylinder; very fragile; sound + writing (Thomas Edison) Edison's vision for the phonograph1. Letter writing and dictation 2. Phonographic books 3. Education 4. Reproduce music 5. Family memories 6. Music boxes/toys 7. Clocks with speech 8. Advertising 9. Document speeches 10. Connection with telephone Graphophoneuses wax cylinders (Chichster Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter) Wax cylinders Gramophoneflat disk coated with beeswax (Emilie Berliner)...

Media Literacythe result of becoming "more critical as consumers of mass media in situations and more engaged as participants who accept part of the responsibility for the shape and direction of media culture. Communicationcreation in use of symbol systems that convey info and meaning. Mass Mediathe cultural industries-the channels of communication that produce and distribute songs, novels, newspapers, movies, etc. Mass communicationthe process of designing cultural messages and storie...