COMS 419 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neil Postman, Michael Wesch, Erving Goffman

• School: Cal Poly
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 419
• Professor: Julia Wooley

Document Summary

Exam 1 will cover all assigned readings and lectures up until this point. To prepare for the exam, make sure you are able to answer the following questions in some detail. This study guide covers only the lecture material. Justifications for why: it is a major source of knowledge about our world, influences the way we feel, think, and behave, we consume a lot. How the dominant medium (technology is tof any age impacts society. Social behavior = a performance (how we act w/ each other) We play many different roles throughout our daily lives and enact these roles with props, costumes, lines, et. c. Try to keep audiences separate and have a private backstage . Medium as conduit: content, message itself, way it got there doesn"t matters. Medium as language: less about content, more about form/the way info is presented. Different skills required to do so (skills = access codes) Print need to be able to read.