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COM 249 Final - People
People to know for the final
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Communication
Undergraduate 2
12/14/2009

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Marshall McLuhan
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"The medium is the message"
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Meyrowitz
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Racial changes in society, effects of print as a medium to segregate audiences, electronic media cross
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Shaw and McCombs
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studied voters and found relationship between issues the press considered important and issues that voters considered important (as part of Agenda Setting)
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Albert Bandura
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Social Learning Theory
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Johannes Gutenberg
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invented printing press from winepress
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Matthew Brady
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photographer who is credited with inventing photojournalism in the mid- 19th century
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Gugliemo Marconi
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developed radio
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Edwin S. Porter
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produced The Great Train Robbery and helped establish how stories could be told through film
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Melies
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Famous film director of A Trip to the Moon
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Lumiere Brothers
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created portable movie camera; set standards for the speed/format of film; produced A Trip to the Moon
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Farnsworth
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"man who invented electronic television"
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Zworykin
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Russian immigrant that was developing television for Sarnoff at RCA the same time as Farnsworth, but Farnsworth won the race
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Gibson
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coined Cyberspace
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Ben Franklin
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took over New England Courant after James Franklin goes to jail; then purchases Pennsylvania Gazette; Developed lending library; Eventually Poor Richard's Almanac
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Edward R Murrow
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CBS's European director during WWII reported during the bombing in London - hosted See It Now and covered lightweight topics
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D.W. Griffith
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Silent film director of The Birth of Nations which was the most expensive movie to date; also directed Intolerance which marked the point at which outside financial backing became necessary
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John Peter Zenger
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An independe editor of the New York Journal in 1733 accused Governor Cosby of political corruption for replacign supreme court justices he disagreed with, was taken for trial for writing against the government; found not guilty and established truth as a defense against libel
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