Digital Media and Information in Society/Student Journals/Vinchenstein/Semiotics Telephone and telegraph

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Heres my ChatGPT discussion on how Semiotics applys to the telephone and telegraph. https://chat.openai.com/share/95f79147-47b7-4635-a80c-50b22310b169

For the telegraph, things such as a universal morse code, which was a standardized language for people to interpret, were useful in terms of semiotics. The telephone used spoken language rather than morse code, though it still had to be decoded and reinterpreted electronically. Both the telephone and telegraph affected how people communicated, changing their linguistics as well.