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identify the major contributions to television technology. |
The radio, the telegraph and the telephone |
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discuss the difficulty of determining ownership of any technological invention, especially television. |
Because the television was not one single invention, it was a slow and constant evolution with many people involved rather than one. |
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discuss how the methods of production in the television industry produce culture and meaning. |
The television was not made with the intent to have a device to control the masses. It was not a laid out plan. |
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discuss the role of television in creating cultural policy and nation making. |
In Canada television initiated many policies regarding content. Canada set policies ensuring that a particular amount of Canadian content was created and produced. In America, the FCC controls censorship of content, but have no policies on what American content must be displayed. The FCC is stricter than Canadian censorship. |
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What differences between the evolution of motion pictures and the evolution of television does Abramson cite? |
The evolution of motion picture was a replaying recorded images as part of a photogenic technique. Motion picture was evolved from 3 inventions: the magic lantern, the stroboscope (wheel of life), and photography. whereas television needed instant communication and simultaneous visuals. |
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What was the relationship between the technology and content of radio and that of television? |
They are both forms of communication |
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Identify some of the key contributors to the technologies that were direct precursors of television. |
Automatic copying telegraph, electric telegraph, Pantelegraph, telegraph and telephone and phonography Joseph May (1872) as television’s progenitor, because he discovered that light enhances selenium’s conductive properties? Or is it Senleq (1878), who proposed facsimile transmissions with a selenium scanner and telegraphic technology? Or Paul Nipkov, who actually invented a scanning disk in 1884? Was it C. Francis Jenkins, who transmitted the first still pictures in 1922 and the first recognizable moving images in 1925? Or John L. Baird (1923), who claims to have transmitted the first television image? |
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On which main fields of scientific study does Williams focus? How did each technology develop? |
Electricity- commercial use Telegraphy-transmissions by beacons for navigation and naval warfare. Transatlantic cable developed, then electric telegraphy photography-the invention of the camera Film-projection- Radio-the Bell system/wiretransmission through radio link |
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What does Williams say about controversy in the area of invention? |
No one person can be credited with an invention |
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Does William see invention as random and accidental, or otherwise? |
Accidental. Because they are made internally from technology. If TV was not invented we would be controlled or mindless by another invention |
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From Williams’s point of view, do technologies develop as technologies first or as ideological visions first? |
With ideas of how the technologies can be used. New technologies create new needs. The television was not created with a lid out plan. |
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What is your understanding of “Television and Capitalism” (p. 19)? |
Culture and television are controlled by media corporations and sell culture as commodities. Ideas and labor are bought to make a profit. The corporations that control media get to change and control the ideas and creativity to suit their own needs. The labor of cultural workers are exploited for private gain. |
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How does the culture industry influence the television landscape in North America? |
The culture industry controls what television shows are produced, what time slot they are shown on, and sell space to advertisers who are aiming their product at a specific audience. The audience is sold as a commodity. |
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What is the difference between public and private broadcasting in North America? |
Public (BBC) considers public interest its goal. It is made for public interest, not always supplying shows people want but instead shows they need (education). All people who watch TV pay a small licensing fee. Criticized for being an instrument for homogenization. Private (America) is based on profit funded by advertising and revenue. First priority is profit. |
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Is public broadcasting still a significant cultural source in contemporary society? |
Most countries have a mix or public and private, though more have private owned systems. Canada follows the mixed model. |
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In your opinion, how important are the regulations and policies that specify and promote Canadian content? Explain your response. |
It helped shape the Canadian Television programs as broadcasters had to use a specific amount of Canadian content |
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In your opinion, how important is television to nation building in Canada? |
It employs over 500000 workers and contributes 84.6 billion in Gross Domestic Product |
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What is the function of the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)? How do you see their role in the process of nation building? |
regulates and supervises Canadian broadcasting and telecommunications systems. A balance between capitalism on television and ensuring the protection and promotion of Canadian culture. Canadian broadcasting should reflect Canadian creativity and talent our diversity and aboriginal population. They ensure that Tv broadcasters air a certain amount of Canadian content. |
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In what ways does the Internet affect nation building and forms of cultural production? |
The internet provides an audience with an unlimited choice of what show to watch and when. Therefore cultural policies are useless. When users don't have to watch content in the time bound sense it changes the meanings and effects of advertisements. This switches the importance to the content. Before there were only so many time slots that could be accessed by a network. With streaming and the internet there are unlimited "time slots"" |
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What does Butler mean when he suggests that critics presume that television “speaks a single voice?” |
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According to Butler, how does television create and promote meaning? Use the example of family structure to describe how meaning is created through programming. |
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In the reading, Butler asks (through some interpretation) whether “television can mean anything to anyone?” How would you respond to this question? |
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How do the changes and advances in television present a space of creative and hope within our social society? |
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