Timeline of ICT's which have changed the day-to-day Profesionals practices
Hi All ! I am currently tring to create a timeline, from 1945 to current days which aims to identify the occurrence of ICT's in Information Management (IM) and Journalism day-to-day practices. The idea is to have an overlook of either devices/hardwares or tools/softwares which could have provoked major changes on professional pratices. I already tried to do it by myself but the problem is that I was born in 1982. You will easily understand that I don't remember how those trade could be without Internet, Cellular phones or Google. The major difficulty I encounter is to close the gap between the offcial date of creation of technologies and their actual adoption and généralisation, which seems to be more accurate in order to analyze my timeline. For exemple: Even if the creation "Internet" may be "placed" in the late sixties on the timeline, the effective generalization of its use by IM and Journlism profesionals would be better placed in the middle of the nineties. This situation is almost the same for all ICT's. Therefore, my question is: What are, according to you, the ICT's which have had an influence on professionals pratices and where would you place them on a timeline ? I would be very pleased to get input from experienced scholars or profesionals as this list's readers, in order to help me to focus properly on that topic. I Hope to read from you soon. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Jeremy PhD Student Université Libre De Bruxelles (Belgium) -- Jeremy Depauw The Power of Knoweldge Sharing and Skills Synegism Journal de recherche: http://dev.ulb.ac.be/~jdepauw/dotclear/index.php
To start us off, I'd suggest photocopying and its availablity. I don't know when it was first available to the public but when I was first a student the late 1960s it cost 11c to photocopy a sheet in the university library. Our stipend was $200 a year, so we rarely photocopied anything. Two photocopiers in the library of a big university, and no queues! We made notes by hand, which meant we had to read everything that was recommended in order to do that. and only a few carefully chosen articles were recommended. Oddly, photocopying is still 11 c a sheet in our university library, and once again hardly anyone uses it, but that's because almost all the articles and book chapters that are recommended, and they are often legion, are available online. But perhaps the art of useful notetaking is almost dead. M-H On 09/10/2006, at 8:09 PM, Jeremy Depauw wrote
Therefore, my question is: What are, according to you, the ICT's which havehad an influence on professionals pratices and where would you place them ona timeline?
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