COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - New Media, Luddite, Excommunication

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Chris Russill

Document Summary

Lecture 1: the pre-history and history of media. Method of sending ideas/information through technology to another person. A form in which a message is conveyed. Anything that gets in between our life, life goals, etc. The way you grow something (germs), surrounding environment ( contagion ) Communication (archaic) to commune, share, unite, make common; tightly bound to transportation (objects) in 17-18th century and later. Tv/broadcasting, internet/computers, film, magazines, photography, spoken word, clay tablets/rocks, art/painting, telegraph, bulletin boards/file cabinets, fax, music, clocks/calendars, brail, asl, maps, coins/money/stamps, radar, satellites: mass media (19c) - radio, film, television, computers (40s-50s, recent digital technology. Cultural forms (reality tv, epic poetry, advertising: the bias of evidence. Early cave paintings, stone tablets are visible evidence, but we don"t have things like the first word ever uttered. There are things we just don"t know about; our history is skewed by this bias. Biology no longer important to kinds of things we become today.