CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Wireless Telegraphy, Coaxial Cable, Canadian Content

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

Lecture #1 week 2a defining the field. Information source: primary agent of socialization pervasive, entertainment / info-tainment, agenda-setting, global economy, binding / unifying (or fragmentive?) How senders and receivers encode and decode messages. How transmitters use channels and media of communication. Process by which one person affects the behavior or state of another. That which is transmitted in the communication process. Intention or intended meaning as crucial factor. (cid:523)looks to stages in process of communication to determine where failure occurred(cid:524) Process of communication and on correcting errors or failures in communication process. On (cid:498)reading(cid:499) and how (cid:498)readers(cid:499) with different social experiences or from different cultures may find different meanings in the same text. How messages or texts interact with people in order to produce meanings. Connection between the meanings people make and the culture(cid:523)s(cid:524) in which they live. Communicative social interaction as constituting the individual as a member of a particular culture or society.