CCT314H5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Simulacrum, Dominant Ideology, Semiotics

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT314H5
• Professor: Divya Maharajh

Document Summary

Lecture 1: representation in language, mind, and art. Using language to to say something meaningful, about or to represent, the world meaningfully, to other people. (hall, 1997: 15) Making meaning by forging links between three different order of things. The world of things: people + events and experiences. The conceptual world: the mental concepts we carry around in our heads. The signs: arranged into languages, standing for + communicating concepts. When telling how people are, people tend to relate it to how it ought to be. Politics: we fight and die for the right to live as they feel life ought to be lived. We are not individuals, but subjects of media. Medium is the message (most significant thing about communication) Critiques: content is still important + glorified tech too much + media today is about simulation. Lecture 2: language and representation: the arbitrary of signs. Platonic copy is equivalent to original.