Your second essay Spring 2019

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Essay No.2 !

Your second essay, is due during April, the paper is on the Telegraph, Telephone and the Television.  

 

Your paper is short history of the social context, and technical development of the 3 inventions, then on your final page, a conclusion of sorts - a statement which considers both the immediate, and also, the long term impact of the inventions on culture and behaviour, and finally, a brief speculative consideration, on our future's, communications technologies.

Remember Innis's notion of "technological determinism", technological cause and effect, reciprocity etc.

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(for total of 5 pages only, 4 pages for the essay, 1 page for the bibliography! ) no exceptions, edit and refine.

Don't ramble or repeat yourself, really look at what you are trying to say, I'ver given you lots of notice, so plan ahead .... reduce rather than obtuse.
 

 

see below 3 visual timeline images to assist you in better appreciating the historical context, and parallel developments made during the periods that your essays cover. Research, planning ....

 

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