Topic
V 1. Media Industries
* 1.1. society and culture
* 1.2. technology
* 1.3. economics
V 2. Pre-Modern Culture
V 2.1. Segmented Feudal Society
* Royalty
* Nobility
* Peasantry
V 2.2. High Culture
* Theater
* Epic Poetry
* Scripture
* Philosophy
* Classics
V 2.3. Folk Culture
* Oral Tradition
* Songs
* Myths
V 3. Enlightenment
V 3.1. Knowledge
* printing press
* rise of vernacular languages
* science and rationality
V 3.2. Sovereignty
* Protestant reformation
* French/American Revolutions
V 4. Industrial Production
* 4.1. contrasts artisanal production
* 4.2. assembly line
V 4.3. technology
* steam engine
* printing press
V 4.4. economies of scale
* mass production
* efficiency
* lower prices
V 5. Mass Society
* 5.1. abstraction
* 5.2. millions, billions
* 5.3. rise of the nation-state
V 6. Mass Culture
* 6.1. mass-produced culture
* 6.2. mass media
* 6.3. national culture
* 6.4. rise of (culture) media industries
V 7. Mass Media
* 7.1. analog
V 7.2. media were mass media
* radio
* television
* newspapers
* magazines
* film
V 7.3. one-to-many
* media produced by media companies
* gatekeepers
* homogenized taste
* "industrialization of culture" (Adorno and Horkheimer)
* "read-only" media
V 8. New Media
V 8.1. digital
* compressed
* packets
V 8.2. convergence
V media adopting digital technology
* telephone
* print media
* film
* video games
* recordings
* cable satellite
* broadcasting
V information workers
* media employees
* telco workers
* computer programmers
V 8.3. many-to-many
V interactive
* not "read-only"
* but "read-write"
V social
* creating media ourselves
* strip away the middle layers
* Facebook
* YouTube
* blogs
V asynchronous
* time-shifting technologies
V narrowcasted
* demographics
* individualized media, via algorithms
V multimedia
* breakdown distinctions between media
* digital convergence