CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Studies
22 Nov 2014
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What is this course about: a survey of the social and cultural implications of major developments in media and communications in history, language (orality and writing); printing; telegraph; internet; telephone; photography; phonography; film; radio; tv. What is the history of communication: the history of media/communication is a story told from a particular perspective or point of view, every history carries within it a certain set of assumptions. It is not a string of facts, dates, events. Assumptions i. e. invention of writing- we assume we know where things come from (developed world)
