Mass Communication

The Internet: Mass Communication Gets Personal2#DisabledAndCuteDisabled author Keah Brown decided she liked who she saw in the mirror and proclaimed she was #DisabledAndCute on social media3Hanson, Mass Communication: Living in a Media World, 7eSAGE Publishing, 2019#DisabledAndCuteCritics in disability community saw “cute” as a diminutive term. Brown realized she couldn’t make everyone happySeen as a conversation starter between disabled community and mediaTrying to get disabled actors to play disabled charactersHanson, Mass Communication: Living in a Media World, 7eSAGE Publishing, 20194What Is the Internet?New mass medium incorporating elements of interpersonal, group, and mass communications“A diverse set of independent networks, interlinked to provide its users with the appearance of a single, uniform network”5Hanson, Mass Communication: Living in a Media World, 7eSAGE Publishing, 20195Development of the InternetHow do we make incompatible computers talk with each other?How do we share information?Can we maintain military communication after nuclear war? (But this system was never built!)6Hanson, Mass Communication: Living in a Media World, 7eSAGE Publishing, 20196Packet Switching1964: Paul Baran develops decentralized computer network for Air ForceMessages are broken into small data packets, which are sent independently across the network