1. RECORDED SOUND
Jeremy Schaffel, Danielle Ellis, Charlotte Bell

2. CULTURE
Teaching elocution
Reproduction of music
Recording last words of a dying person
Preservation of language
Educational purposes

3. RHETORIC
Richards places rhetoric in everyday communication and
interactions
Applies exclusively to verbal texts

4. TEXT
Edison wanted phonographs to be dictation of texts:
letters for hearing impaired
educational
spelling purposes

5. ARTIFACTS
Tinfoil phonographic messages: Thomas Edison- a sound writer
Flat disc: records
other artifacts according to Brummett:
mediums of technology communication

6. POWER AND PRIVILEGE
“Empowerment in our society is enacted in artifacts and
experiences in our everyday life”- Brummett
Reproduction of music becomes the dominant function
illustrating the intentions of the creator to be determined by the
way in which listeners and consumers actually domesticate a new
technology.” - Brummett