Brief notes from my second lecture of 'Intro to Media Studies':
- Time lines are political - people have to make decisions of what to include or not include. It's their own timeline. Create their own history.
- Technological Determinism - a new thing which dominates and changes society
- 'March of Progress' - Great man - can people make history?
- Marconi invented wireless radio.
- Telegraphy = communication between two points via code
- Telephony = speech
- Wireless Telegraphy = coded messages which can be sent from a ship to land (for example)
- Wireless Telephony = speech
- Radio was originally created for the Navy, when the war ended manufacturers were worried that they would not sell anymore radios as they were not needed so they began to think about broadcasting.
- On the 14th November 1922 the BBC was born! It broadcast content to sell radios, it was funded by a share of a licence fee which was collected by the Post Office.
- The general manager was JOHN REITH.
- John Reith became the general manager at the age of 34, he was a Scottish engineer who was very religious. He "understood the importance of new media"
- He managed the BBC as a public service, it didn't exist soley to make money.
- It maintained a unified control
- Their key principles were to EDUCATE, INFORM and ENTERTAIN
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