CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Collective Intelligence, International Business, Musical Notation

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

Overcoming of natural barriers to facilitate the movement of people, goods, and culture. Technology is a repeatable, social, cultural and material process. Bridges is a good example of communication. (how much, how far, how fast. Technologies and institutions that allow a given culture to select, store and process data. Media problemization - media are designed to solve a perceived problem. Communication media - our technologies are imagined to be the solution to our social, cultural, political, education, psychological, governmental, and spiritual problems. Lecture 2 study and history of media. Study of power and capital (control of organization of time/space) Study of development and progress (why we choose some and not others) Especially on the scarcely generalizable assumption, communication means the rendering into of speech of perceived and linking isolated individuals. Turns to information theory - shannon & weaver model: Noise would have included any distraction that is experienced.