CMN 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Media

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3130
• Professor: Valerie Noftle

Document Summary

For human beings life is meaningful because it is a story, a story has as sense of a whole, and it"s arc is determined by its significant moments, the ones where something happens blood (laurence hill) Most authority figures don"t believe they have control of the situation, commination planners help facilitate control. Information gets out almost instantly and can be targeted, and information can flow all around the world in a short amount of time. New media is interactive, and being the head of an organization can lead this to be a loss of sense of control. It would make the job easier to narrow down diversity of voices, so a framework around the number of voices so their voice isn"t lost. Accessibility is another reason authority figures may feel a loss of control, Compression of time, is a challenge for readers as the flow of information is not scheduled.