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During the past five weeks, Team 1 came up with the understanding of how media technologies have affected people¡¦s lives positively and negatively through out the history of mankind. From Unit 5 to 9, the team had a discussion about the printing press, hypertext, network broadcastings, and surveillance, which helped us to clarify the influences that these technologies have had. The following paragraphs summarize each form of the media technologies. The printing press brought many changes to people¡¦s lives, especially for cultural and political stages. Since early written documents were insufficient at delivering messages, it was unusual for audiences to collect elegant information. The first kind of written works were made from woodblock printing and movable types. However, the invention of the printing press helped to increase productivity in a short amount of time, and decrease the cost of printing. The following statements, from the CMS, are examples of what the printing press has done for us. It, ¡§Extended and intensified the effects of the phonetic alphabet¡¨, ¡§literacy spread beyond the confines of the court and the clergy, penetrating other levels of European society¡¨, and ¡§the transition from manuscript to print culture carried with it profound social and cultural change¡¨(CMS). All in all, the printing press helped people to communicate, and it also helped to build connections between different nations. Hypertext has not taken us back to an oral culture, but instead, it has upgraded it. The invention of the printing press was to spread our knowledge to others, while the invention of the Internet was to exchange catalogues between university¡¦s libraries in a more effective way. Therefore, Hypertext is not something new to society, but it is an improvement of past technology. For example, WYSIWYG was an improvement to the typewriter, while the Internet was made to make WYSIWYG more effective.
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