COMM 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2102
• Professor: Sharonna Greenberg

Document Summary

Ideas about communication have been around for thousands of years. Theme of the term, although aspects of communication have been taken up, it is not until the modern era that it emerges as an object in and of itself (beginning of 19th century to turn of the. Those theories of communication emerge because of the proliferation of media (expansion of media technologies) and in building theories many theorists simply built upon/borrowed from theories that came before them, applied them to communications. Sei shonagon, pillow book, c. 1000 mentions an experience most of us have had, sending a letter awaiting the reply, only to have it sent back without a reply. Message sent and not received can be dispiriting, communicating without reply is as early as the year 1000 incredibly difficult, anxieties about not being heard, responded to, getting a reply. Long standing unease over the fact that we send messages and they are not responded to (email)