Did Modernity start with the telegraph? In our class last Wednesday, we discussed this claim from James Carey’s 1989 book, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society (you can read Carey’s telegraph article here). Here is his astonishing and fascinating central claim: the innovation of the telegraph can stand […]
Daily Archives: October 28, 2011
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Benjamen Walker is the host of the program “Too Much Information” a radio show (and podcast) about life in the information age. He reports on many of the issues and topics of the day (Wikileaks, Anonymous, online porn, surveillance, net neutrality) but he also throws in conspiracy theories, fiction and […]