This infographic gives information on one early social reaction to the development of the telephone: telephone terror. As the infographic explains, telephone terror was the fear of answering, speaking into, having, or using a telephone. From my initial searches, I found it a tad bit difficult to find information on this subject (apparently, there was…
For my infographic, I choose to explore the connection between Early American Newspapers and Politics. I was inspired by the article we read last week, …
Sources: Pope, Elizabeth Watts. “The When and Where of American Print Culture in the 1700s.” October 6, 2021. Documentary video, 11:18. Accessed February 15, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4oB9ANPr8. All images were taken directly from t…
When I chose radio as my topic for my infographic, I was unsure if I wanted to give a general overview of how the radio rose in popularity or go for a topic more specific. I figured I should try to cover both broad and specific information about the radio, […]
Excuse the long title for the blog post there is […]
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFajhohUAk/hqxmoCHZvgrA97Lc7uN94A/edit?utm_content=DAFajhohUAk&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton This post is my infographic which gives some insight into the basics of what the telegraph was, and how it was used during the US Civil War. I had been aware of how important the telegraph was in the war to some degree, but had practically known nothing about how it works or how …
To discuss advertising, I have decided to make my infographic a timeline of sorts. Each section covers a different time period along with the new technologies that shaped marketing. Prior to printing there are a few traces of paintings on buildings and other mediums, but it was mostly word of mouth. Word of mouth is …
When I started working on this assignment, I wanted to think about the ways that Morse Code was used and how it evolved over time. There is a lot of great information that I found and I ended up narrowing it down to show some of the variety of ways the code itself was used, …
I thought that this class assignment was a really interesting way to think about cave paintings as a form of communication, and the planning process really demonstrated this as we had to come up with a plan for how we were going to get across the message “I saw a cool horse and rode it […]
As I was working on my infographic, the old form of technology that I chose to use for the assignment was a newspaper. I really […]