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Other militant leader was Malcom X (1925-1965). Addressed more radical ideas:
Abandon aspirations of integration; create a black nation were black could live in dignity, and freedom from racism. These goals should be achieved by any means necessary.
Louis Armstrong (1900-1971), Duke Ellington (1899-1974), Charlie Parker (1920-1955), Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)
The Information Age: Message and Meaning Shift from industrial to an information age. The tools of electronic technology have shrunk the distances between the inhabitants of the world community. More information is available to more people in less time. Books published between 1945 and 1970 equaled that issued during the 500 years period between the invention of the printing press and the end of World War I.
The Information Age: Message and Meaning The Information Explosion Tele vision. Tele (Greek) videre (Latin): far seeing
Common in the middle-class life in the West from the 1950 on. Quintessential example of the modern mass media. It transmit information instantaneously into homes across the face of the earth. Televised wars: Vietnam and Desert Storm
The Information Age: Message and Meaning The Information Explosion Computer. Information is essentially image oriented. Mainly nonverbal modes of communication, in contrast to linear mediums. As information is homogenized, it tends to become devalued: product and message may be sacrifice to process and medium.
The Information Age: Message and Meaning The Challenge of Globalism Interdependence of cultures and economies. Roots in nineteenth century industrial and commercial technologies brought the world together. The availability of plane traveling, satellite communication, and the Internet has accelerated the globalization process.
The Global Ecosystem
References: Fiero, G. K. (2011). The humanistic tradition, Book 6: The European renaissance, the Reformation, and the global encounter (6th. Ed). New York, NY: McGraw Hill. Sherman, D & Salisbury, J. (2008). Civilizaciones de occidente. Vol II desde 1600. Mxico: McGraw Hill.