The reading on Francis Whiting Halsey’s “The Beginnings of Daily Journalism in New York” explores the transformation of the press. I think that it is interesting that newspapers as we know them now, used to be completely different. When one thi…
This week we complete a photography analysis project. My table was assigned the Civil war era. I decided to go with the famous photo “Wounded soldiers under trees, Marye’s Heights, Fredericksburg, after the battle of Spotsylvania, 1864&…
The reading all had great parallels, but the day that had the most thought provoking readings was Tuesday. I thought the video and the reading paired with each other nicely. First of all, the video gave a good synopsis of early technology used to make books. The biggest conclusion that I drew from the video …
The readings “Information Diffusion in the British Colonies” Chapter 2 in Chandler, Alfred D., and James W. Cortada. Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present and Roger Mellen’s “The Press, Paper Shortages, and Revolution in Early America” seemed to have reoccurring themes. I noticed the American Revolution in […]
I felt the photograph analysis assignment was a unique collaborative opportunity and enjoyable. I examined a photograph from “I Love Lucy” and Bill Hanley at Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. I was happy to have been given the time period of 1945-1970 because American life changed by leaps and bounds. That is why I chose […]
The photo analysis assignment was very interesting and I enjoyed doing it. Researching pictures from the early cold war era about media and the emergence of the digital age in the United States was something that I had never done before. In particular, I found […]
I really enjoyed the readings this week (from “Information Diffusion in the British Colonies” and “The Press, Paper Shortages, and Revolution in Early America”) because I am such a strong defender of print! I think digital and print media will coexist forever, but that’s just my personal opinion. But getting to understand the history of […]
The readings for week five touched on a variety of subjects connected to the rise of journalism and the adoption of telephones into American society. The first article, titled “The Beginnings of Daily Journalism in New York City” by Francis Whiting Halsey, was written in 1919 and discussed the way that journalism has changed throughout
In reading the “Information Diffusion in the British Colonies” and “The Press, Paper Shortages, and Revolution in Early America” for this week’s assignments, it occurred to me that the flow of information has always had its obstacles in the United States. From the stifling of the Colonial press by England to the lack of linens …
The first reading, Chapter 2 “Early American Origins of the Information Age” written by Richard Brown in the book a Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present by Alfred Chandler and James Cortada reflects colonial print culture in the United States. Brown focused on defining …