COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Electric Light, Communication, Clay Tablet

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2003
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

The toronto school was never really a school. Frankfurt school established an institutional framework to work. Toronto school was a loose grouping of schools and over time became interested in comm and media. The toronto group were a group of scholars who studied canada. Thinkers were often at odds with each other and yet they are associated together because things were happening in the 20th century. Common thread in the toronto school technology organizes. The toronto school and the thinkers are multidisciplinary. Two most famous toronto school thinkers- marschall mclulan and. The most crucial factors in the unfolding of history are the modes and devices through which human being communicate, and they were shocked that they were the first to become involved in the study of media and communication. The problem of canada(how canada came to be how it was)- difficulty of navigation(too vast), hard to communicate/ send messages, difficult to organize/govern because of different topographical features.