COMM 1100U Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Technological Determinism, Internet, Capitalism
12 Oct 2018
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COMM 1100U
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
September 7th 2017
COMM 1100
Lecture One
Technology = progress
Key terms:
• Dialectic
o the idea that histor is shaped opposig fores
▪ thesis – antithesis – synthesis
▪ idea – opposing idea – new idea that combines both
eah adae otais ithi itself a eleet of regressio
• Ideology
o set of ideas joied together that legitiate ad failitate poer relatios
o understood as common sense
o ideologies move mimetically
o meme: a thought or idea that spreads throughout a society in an almost
unconscious way
• Ideology and media
o Reproduction and propagation
o Characters, stories, feelings
ideas a oalese orldide ased o priipals ad istitutios that a or a ot e
logical or internally consistent, but sufficiently convincing enough to be accepted and
irulated
• Information revolution
o What is the mass of mass media?
o Our growing role as consumers and procedures of media
o Toward and information society?
suggests that all arious edia ill oerge or oeist ith oth the iteret and wireless
communication for foreseeable future. This convergence suggests that knowledge is the new
atural resoure, ad iforatio is the e idustr.
• Materialism
o oept of philosoph ad theor, seeks eplaatio of pheoea
reference to solid, phsial, ad ehaial aspets of ature ad life (What
can we grasp with our five senses?)
o Historical Materialism:
▪ soial fore that dries historial hage, is the struggle for otrol of
the aterial orld
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▪ Related: Marxism
▪ Production is a social progression
▪ Under capitalism, production is an unequal process
• Immaterialism
o Information = value
o Do things become less valuable?
o How does information move? Where does it move? What does it need to move?
a ke thee he talkig aout vectors is that they are not necessarily themselves
eutral or alue free
• Technological determinism
o Neil Postman: our technologies have ideological bias
predispositio to ostrut the orld…to aplif oe sese or skill or attitude more
loudly than another. Technologies are casual: they make things happen, they are why
things happen. So where do we fit into this scheme?
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Document Summary
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