COMN 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liberal Democracy, Making Money, Canadian Content

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 2200
• Professor: Wade Rowland

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We would not have a sense of help without communication with others. If language is socially constructed, you would expect the body of language to carry allot of cultural baggage: learn allot about a culture through the language. Earliest of sophisticated media is wax and clay, eventually leading to ink on paper: in writing these symbols are meant to stand for or represent either full words or parts of words. Key to effective communication is figuring out how to make well formed sentences. Most sophisticated of communication technology: digital media. Telegraph transmits information according to a binary code (morris code) Printing press: era of inventions based on scientific research, using science and applying it directly to technology. Radio you do(cid:374)"t (cid:374)eed to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)here the other perso(cid:374) is i(cid:374) order to send them a message: because of this is was thought that radio would bring world peace, it connects everyone.