CPCF 1F25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Michel Foucault, Discourse Analysis, Roland Barthes

• School: Brock University
• Department: Communication, Popular Culture and Film
• Course: CPCF 1F25
• Professor: Justin Sully

Document Summary

The act of putting ideas into words, visuals, audio, or any other system of signs. Receiver must decode and interpret the communication to understand the idea. Example the printing press way in which mass media shapes a society dramatic change before and after the printing press. Mass media in terms of economically and politically. Media and communication changing from means to an end. In economic terms communication media used for economics, trade, commerce, today media becomes the object of it movement from media communication from means to end, more than just a means. Government policy initially policy was enabled by mass media, becomes a focal point of government. Using signs to make meaning: sign: anything that represents something with something else; or anything with meaning. Signifier: the experienced, sensory or phenomenal aspect of the sign (sound, image, gesture, touch, figure, pattern, etc. )