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Technology and Entertainment – Storytelling

BEHS 103: Technology in Contemporary Society

Week 7

Credit: Katherine Im (2021, July)

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What is “Entertainment”

entertainment [ˌɛntəˈteɪnmənt]

n

1. the act or art of entertaining or state of being entertained

2. an act, production, etc., that entertains; diversion; amusement

Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/entertainment

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What are some forms of entertainment?

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Think about it:

In each form of entertainment, what are the technologies that allowed each form to advance?

Storytelling

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Origins of storytelling

Probably dates back to the beginning of language (50,000 – 70,000 years ago)

Two forms – artistic and verbal

Storytellers – good memory, creative imaginations, dynamic presentation style

Gained respect and status

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Lascaux Caves

15,000 – 13,000 BCE

Artistic storytelling

A Very Brief History of Storytelling

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Verbal storytelling

Oldest recorded story from Sumeria

700 BCE

“Epic of Gilgamesh” – King of Uruk (Iraq)

First “book”

Tablet Image source: http://andyrossagency.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/gilgamesh-target.jpg

Gilgamesh Image Source: http://www.actorssceneunseen.com/gilgameshcd.aspx

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Verbal storytelling

500 BCE – Aesop’s Fables

200 BCE – fables written down for the first time

Kept alive through storytelling

A Very Brief History of Storytelling

Imagesource: http://appfinder.lisisoft.com/app/the-boy-who-cried-wolf-ibigtoy.html

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Transmitting stories to modern times

What technologies were important?

3300 BCE – Written language developed in Sumeria – “Cuneiform”

105 AD – Paper invented in China

1456 – Movable printing press

http://floatlearning.com/2012/03/a-brief-history-of-publishing/

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Religious texts

1 – http://carm.org/when-was-bible-written-and-who-wrote-it

2-http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Quran.htm

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-1445–-425

Old Testament: written in parts between 1445 BCE to 425 BCE (approximate)1

1st century

New Testament: written mostly in the 2nd half of the 1st century1

610 AD

Qur’an: recitation began in 610 AD; written form 650 AD2

Ancient text meets modern technology

Dead Sea Scrolls: http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/dss_video

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100727-who-wrote-dead-sea-scrolls-bible-science-tv/

http://www.theilluminerdy.com/2012/08/

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Evolution of printed materials

1690 –first English-American newspaper published

http://floatlearning.com/2012/03/a-brief-history-of-publishing/

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Self-publication

1776 – Thomas Paine wrote and published “Common Sense”

Sold 100,000 copies in 3 months

Best selling 18th c. publication

Ignited the American Revolution

http://floatlearning.com/2012/03/a-brief-history-of-publishing/

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Magazines

Magazines target particular audiences (e.g., trade, consumer)

1663 – 1st magazine published in Germany

1899 – National Geographic

1922 – Reader’s Digest

1899-1967 – Magazines proliferate

http://floatlearning.com/2012/03/a-brief-history-of-publishing/

http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Courses/ResourcesForCourses/MagazinesHistory.html

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1st e-book

1949 – 1st patented electronic book by Angela Ruiz – schoolteacher in Spain

1960’s Brown University – online texts and online discussions

1971 – Michael Hart credited with inventing the first true “e-book”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book

http://www.gutenbergnews.org/20110908/michael-hart-1947-2011/michael-hart-rocket-book/

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An aside….

What else happened in 1971?

Ted Hoff

…Intel introduced the first microprocessor

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Moore’s Law

The number of transistors that can fit on a microchip will double every two years.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Transistor_Count_and_Moore%27s_Law_-_2011.svg/667px-Transistor_Count_and_Moore%27s_Law_-_2011.svg.png

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…and the world changed forever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQ_o48K_6Y

Think of what wouldn’t be possible in entertainment and other areas without the microprocessor.

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1st e-reader

1998 – Rocket e-Book

2006 – Sony Reader

2007 – Amazon Kindle – blended strategy to sell eBooks via Amazon

2009 – B&N Nook

2010 – iPad – 1st successful tablet computer

2011 – Android tablets

2011 – Amazon eBook sales exceeded paperback sales

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tablet_computers

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And by 2015…

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Social media & Web 2.0

How is this related to storytelling?

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Self-publishing

Everyone is now a storyteller!

Blogging is a worldwide phenomenon

In the United States, 32 million bloggers (2021)

http://floatlearning.com/2012/03/a-brief-history-of-publishing/

http://snitchim.com/how-many-blogs-are-there/

Image: https://firstsiteguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/The-global-number-of-blogs.png

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Over 2.7 billion active Facebook users (2021)

Over 1.1 billion TikTok users (2021)

Over 293 million Snapchat users (2021)

Over 206 million active Twitter accounts (2021)

Almost 1.7 million self-published titles in the U.S. (2018)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/facebook-user-numbers_n_3292316.html

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Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling

http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_sabia_the_technology_of_storytelling.html (3:33)

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What do you think?

How has society been changed by the evolution of storytelling?

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