COM 320 Summer 2016

@toasterpix

Tumblr for summer 2016 course. All web-based readings, listenings, viewings will be posted here (and RN) and will be clearly marked as TO DO. Posts without this label are extra: we'll also use this for sharing any media-related stories, gifs, and anything else that connects to the class (which is ... nearly everything!). You can also share stories with me to post on here via twitter: @toasterpix

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stories, links, gifs, whatever

We’ll use tumblr in addition to our usual online class mechanism (reggienet) to post and discuss media criticism in one of its natural habitats: social media, I picked tumblr especially because of its ease of use, that you can participate without singing up by clicking on the PARTICIPATE link at the top of the page, and of course, the overabundance of gifs to make an argument. Well, no argument here. Just that this is a cute puppy.

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This ad promoted NBC’s 1962-63 TV season.

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NBC, “The Color Network.” Let’s see… Shirley Booth (Hazel), Professor Ludwig Von Drake (Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color), Richard Chamberlain (Dr. Kildare), Chet Huntley and David Brinkley (The Huntley-Brinkley Report).

“The Structure and Functions of American Government” was a two-semester course for college credit offered on the early morning (6:30-7 am) Continental Classroom (a rival of Sunrise Semester on CBS).

(via ERIC ED139433: Policies Guiding Library Service and Selection of Library Materials. : ERIC : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive)

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The Sunday Times - Making of Icons

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World’s First Digital Camera (1975): Created by Kodak’s engineer Steve Sasson

In December 1975, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented something that would, decades later, revolutionize photography: the world’s first digital camera. It was the size of a toaster, and captured black and white images at a resolution of 100×100 - or 0.01 megapixels in today’s marketing terminology. The images were stored on cassette tape, taking 23 seconds to write. The camera uses an ADC from Motorola, a bog-standard (for the 1970s) lens from a Kodak movie camera, and a CCD chip from Fairchild Semiconductor - the same technology that digital cameras still use today. To playback the images, a special computer and tape reader setup (pictured below) was built, outputting the grainy images on a standard TV. It took a further 23 seconds to read each image from tape.