POC 6 Telephone

Points of Consideration 6 – 25 points

DUE: Monday October 22

Reading: Revolutions in Communication, pp.107-137, pp 138-209

Respond briefly to each question. Briefly define each vocabulary term. Perfectly follow these guidelines for a written paper.

 

What were some ways that the emergence of the telegraph in the mid–19th century change the news business?

What were some news services that emerged outside of the United States?

How did United Press and International News Association challenge the power of the Associated Press in the early twentieth century?

Why was the telephone regarded as a technology to circumvent the telegraph?

How did AT&T become a regulated monopoly in the early 1910s?

Why did AT&T break up in the early 1980s? What was the result?

 

VOCABULARY (define briefly)

Alexander Graham Bell

Ma Bell

American Telephone and Telegraph

Morse Code

Associated Press

Victorian Internet

Napoleonic semaphore/telegraph

Elisha Gray

Gardiner Hubbard

Western Union

Kingsbury Commitment

What Hath God Wrought?

NOTE: SELECT AT LEAST THREE OF THE VOCABULARY TERMS ABOVE AND POST TO YOUR TIMELINE.