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MEDIA, POWER AND CULTURE

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Penny press: Names to know

• Benjamin Day, the Sun (“It Shines for All”

• James Gordon Bennett, the Herald

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Chains: Names to know

• E.W. Scripps: Cleveland Penny Press

• Joseph Pulitzer: St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

New York World

• William Randolph Hearst: San Francisco

Examiner, New York Journal

• S.I. Newhouse: The Plain Dealer, New

Orleans Times-Picayune, Newark Star-

Ledger, Portland Oregonian

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Film: Names to know

• August & Louis Lumiere: Film perforation,

projector

• Thomas Edison: Studio, “peep show”

(kinetoscope)

• D.W. Griffith: “Birth of a Nation”

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Radio: Names to know

• Guglielmo Marconi: Radio wave wireless

telegraph, Nobel in physics

• Reginald Fessenden: Vacuum tube (AM)

radio

• Edwin Armstrong: FM (1933)

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TV: Names to know

• Philo T. Farnsworth: Designed practical

electronic (not mechanical) TV system

• Vladimir Zworykin: TV camera

• Milton Berle: “Uncle Miltie”

• John Cameron Swayze: First network

news anchor

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Internet: Names to know

• Ray Tomlinson: First email (1971)

• Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn: Created TCP/IP

(lets different computers talk to one

another)

• Tim Berners-Lee: Invented WWW

• Larry Page, Sergey Brin: Founded Google

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Social media: Names to know

• Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger: Wikipedia

• Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook

• Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone: Twitter