An overview of history and social impacts...

Communicating through Time and Space

Everything we do in terms of expression is making something publicly known e.g. faces and oral cultures in literate cultures. 

Time

• stone art

Communication through time isn't very portable but has greater authority

Space

• smoke/fire
• telephones 
• telegraphy
• internet networks
• letters

Communication in space usually doesn't last long, but can be transmitted across greater distances

• Modern contexts, for example social media tends to be capable of both
• Social media challenges the established social order creating media panics

Publishing complexities of core aspects of culture for example hieroglyphics, brail, uniforms, fashion brands, painting, bible and torah attempts to conserve importance and meaning through both time and space. Writing tries to capture all, it externalises our thinking, it is unresponsive, you can't argue/discuss or defend it and it is context free language detached from its author. 

Week 2 KEYWORD = alphabet