[COMM 202] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (42 pages long!)
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Transmission vs ritual: transmission -- simple act of sending and receiving messages the literal send, encode, channel, decode, receive, feedback process, this has no concrete meaning, it is just the message. ex. In other words the receiver does not understand the attempt of communication . Readings: most common perspective in our culture, originally based on geography and transportation. Communication represented as the transmission of signals or messages over distance for control. Connected with the desire to increase speed and effect of messages. Ritual is the social aspects, having a good time eating with friends. Communication: as the social rituals athat make and repair meaning. Technology: as socially made, value-based decisions, affordances, constraints. Often ignore that there are expectations and cues around the tool. The tool is never just a tool. Technologies aren"t just value laden, they have politics into them. Communication technologies are located in space where they are not taking another form. Defining concepts: communication as transmission vs ritual.
