CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Louis Althusser, Semiotics, Marshall Mcluhan

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN2160
• Professor: David Jackson

Document Summary

Quiz mostly structuring concepts of media theory (not hot and cold media) Modernity/reaction of modernism (habermas, benjamin, innis, mcluhan, r. williams) Structuralism is the way that a specific field of knowledge is analyzed as a complex system of parts (human activity as a construction as opposed to natural) Everything has meaning bc of our language systems. Semiotics structures its individual parts into parts of meaning called signs. Language is the ruling system but is still linked to every other system. Synchronic in his theory of language explores language as a system at a given point in time colloquial language diachronic etymology. Langue and parole langue: whole system or structure of language. Barthes takes saussure"s theory and applies it to the way culture and society develops.