COMM 2301 Study Guide - System On A Chip, Barometer, Penny Press
9 Jul 2014
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Understanding communication theory: we live in a surveillance society, with so many different media companies with few owners, the quality of public debate/discussion. 12/09/12 will likely suffer: threatens quality of democracy. Live in a society where nearly everything is digitized: communication is an entire range of different forms, talking, body language, silence , how things are represented has an impact on how we view the world around us. Larger scale attempts to explain things that happen: can think about theories in comparison to a mash-up video. Borrowing ideas of the past to make new meanings + build upon the thinking of others. It always comes back to messages, messengers, and the receivers". Theories around communication arrive with the proliferation of the media. In building theories, many theorists simply built upon or borrowed theories from people who came before it and adapted them for communication. Communicating without reply goes back as early as the year 1000.
