CMNS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Understanding Media, Clifford Geertz, Erving Goffman
17 Oct 2016
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We shape our tools and our tools shape us - marshall mcluhan. Week two: types of communication & models of communication. We don"t just communicate to exchange messages; we communicate to create relationships, shape our communities, and construct our realities. Ex: the police"s intimidating behaviour, led to the outbreak of a series of clashes . Or another ex: the strikers were involved in a series of violent acts, and the police were forced to contain the rioters . The dude factor: the social function of the word dude . Cool solidarity = heterosexism + masculine solidarity + non-conformity. Dude points to a practice of dominant young masculinity. Meaning is made in contextualized interactions; words and sounds are indeterminate resources that speakers combine to perform and negotiate stances, which are the primary focus of interaction. (kiesling, p. 90) In other words, communication is a situated practice and not reducible to the transmission of informational codes!
