After reading the 4 monographs, I feel I have learned some interesting takeaways from the topic of the history of communication and information. Among these are ideas relating to the evolution vs. revolution of the advancement of technology in the relatively recent history. This reading was titled “Media Technology and Society” by Brian Winston. The …
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I found the first documents about the Information Age or […]
Broad Bands– Claire Evans I really enjoy the way Evans discusses the fact that modern computers are only able to exist based on the work of female mathematicians and computers. This chapter primarily focuses on Ada Lovelace and her notes on Charl…
The first introduction I read was Chapter 1 of Broad Bands by Claire L. Evans. I thoroughly enjoyed this introduction, especially since I was not expecting such an emphasis on how women aided in the beginnings of computing and making mathematical advancements toward having a machine such as the computer. Evans approaches the History of […]
In James Gleick’s The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood introduction he is describing the process of the spread and utilization of information and how this essentially the basis for understanding life. “It is information, words, instructions . . . If you want to understand life, don’t think about vibrant, throbing gels and oozes, think about …
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The “Broad Bands” introduction by Claire L. Evans examines the role that women played in the rise of computing machines, paying special attention to women’s contributions as they were used first as human computers performing mathematical calculations. Evans also provides a history of Ada Lovelace in which she describes Ada’s mathematical and engineering contributions, which […]
The two introductions I chose to read was Broad Bands by Claire L. Evans and The Information by James Gleick. In Broad Bands, Evans discusses the role of women in the information age, specifically as computers. The introduction discusses how the job of computer was largely done by women, and when computers become objects, women took on the role of managing them. I found this interesting because usually computers and the people that work on…
I think that both James Gleick and Ronald R. Kline both made very different, but informative approaches to their works. I really enjoyed how Gleick introduced the information theory in his introduction by breaking down how mathematics and engineering collaborated together in order to create a whole new direction for the world. I think that …
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The first introduction I read was James Gleick’s The Information. Gleick’s overall approach to introducing the History of the Information Age is chronological. He describes the rise of Bell’s transistor, its predecessor the telegraph, Claude Shannon’s theory of information, and caps with how information plays a vital role in our […]
The two introductions I decided to read were The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick and Media Technology and Society by Brian Winston. I found that these two articles were very different from each other in many ways. Winston approaches the topic much more theoretically, making it difficult to fully understand […]