Two Questions:
- Did the need for protest provide a catalyst for new technologies? Or did protest mary benefit from emerging technology in the 1500's through the 1900's?
- In the reading the government was always working to hinder the spread of dissent. For every paper they shut down two more rose up to take its place. Do you believe that with the advent of the internet and Participatory Culture that spread of information is in a safer place today? What does everyone think the largest threats to free speech today?
Its incredible that the Russians would put printing presses onto trains and send them out to the furthest parts of the country so that they could spread the word of revolution. Whats even more incredible is that so soon afterwards the very men who those presses had them elected banned them because they were afraid of them.
It sickens me how war propaganda would invent atrocities and shame men into signing up to kill one another. They threw millions of lives away as easily as they threw bombs at one another. Without a second thought. This is exactly why ethics should be taught to designers and artists.
2 comments:
great thoughts eli. i particularly like how you pointed out the irony of the bolshevik use of printing presses and their subsequent banning. i'm not positive they banned the use of printing presses, but i do know they outlawed any non "social-realist" imagery. stalin exercised a much heavier hand on his people than did lenin.
but good points all around, sir.
Hey thanks Tyler! I appreciate your comment and the correction on the Russian printing presses!
I'm enjoying these class discussions.
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