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    Harold Adam Innis‚ a Canadian professor of political economy‚ was born in 1894 in Southwestern Ontario in Oxford County. Harold’s parents practiced farming and were firm Baptists. Schooling life of Harold started in Sunday school and the local one-room public school. His high school career started at Otterville High School proceeded by his college life at Woodstock Collegiate Institute. Innis joined McMaster University which back then served as a local Church College in Toronto. Shortly after his

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    of deficit the child of the future will seek above all the freedom‚ at least for a time‚ from the flashing devices‚ streaming video and flip through headlines that make you feel at the same time empty and packed data. Half a century ago‚ Marshall McLuhan‚ who came closest to understanding what will happen‚ warned: "If the person too quickly inundated with information‚ he loses touch with himself." Pico Iyer describes that people almost do not have time to notice how little time they have. The more

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    The media makes up the society and in the words of Marshal McLuhan in 1964‚ “the media is an extension of our senses.” And at that‚ it means the media portrays the life of the everyday man. Therefore‚ expectation is placed on the media to carry out responsibilities that will enhance the standard of living of humans and develop the society in all ramifications. There are three fundamental roles of the media‚ and they are to inform‚ educate and entertain. But further studies have come up with other

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    September 18‚ 2014 When asked about my life time goals and where I see myself either five years or twenty years into the future‚ that is a question that seems almost impossible to answer. As a teenager‚ I have some idea as to what I would like to do with my future‚ and I would say that it’s loosely based on the life I have today. Thankfully I’ve had the opportunity to attend a school that not only prepares me for what college and life after high school may be like; but also has given me the tools

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    where the entire world has been molded in the image of Western‚ mainly American‚ culture. In popular and professional discourses alike‚ the popularity of Big Macs‚ Baywatch‚ and MTV are touted as unmistakable signs of the fulfillment of Marshall McLuhan ’s prophecy of the Global Village. The globalization of culture is often chiefly imputed to international mass media. After all‚ contemporary media technologies such as satellite television and the Internet have created a steady flow of transnational

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    F.B. Morse was an inventor and an artist. He is best known however for his invention of the single wire telegraph and the co invention of mores code. With the help of other inventers‚ Mores was able to make models of the wire telegraphs‚ get a Patton on it‚ have wires installed up and down the Atlantic‚ changed the way the world and how ships communicate‚ and became a wealthy man. The telegraph is not used today because of the other ways we communicate but mores code is still used. Mores was born

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    Chapter 1 How do we know? * Somatically – things we know through direct sensory perception of our environment * Look‚ smell‚ feel‚ sound or taste * Symbolically – things we know through someone or something * Parent‚ friend‚ teacher‚ museum‚ textbook‚ photograph‚ radio‚ film‚ television or internet * This type of information comes to use from an indirect channel or medium Who are the Mass Media? * Mass media – communication technologies that have the potential to

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    formerly help only by the nobility or the clergy.” During the electronic era in 1840s came the development of the telegraph. The way the telegraph work was by dot-dash electronic signals which was a great contribution to communication. The telegraph made messages more rapid‚ made it easier to coordinate military operations‚ and it also led to other developments. The telegraph led to the “radio‚ the fax machine‚ and the cell phone‚ which ironically resulted in the telegraph’s demise.” Finally

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    Developing Coherent Paragraphs ______________________________________________________________ Paragraph structures provide a map for your ideas‚ guiding readers through your reasoning. Keep this simple set of principles in mind while you write‚ and use it as a checklist when you’re revising. Use Topic Sentences State the central idea of each paragraph explicitly in a topic sentence. That’s one way to show that you have thought through your material. In academic writing‚ the topic sentence

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    era. Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. The initial form of electronic communication was the telegraph. In attempting to refine telegraph technology‚ Alexander Graham Bell discovered that he could broadcast his voice across a telegraph wire in 1876. This was followed by radio‚ television‚ transistor radios and now it has reached up to the modern computers. Most new media are in the form of digital media. As

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