CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hypodermic Needle

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Core themes: all communication is political, co-constitution does not imply symmetry. Multitude - a set of singularities based on practices of self-determination and the common. Individuated - you don"t give up your individuality to a collective. Communication is the production of meaning through the exchange of information. Communication technologies and the messages we exchange through them are never politically neutral with respect to power. Social movements are rooted in injustices, unequal power. Encoding/decoding sender has an idea, encodes it in something. Initiation (moment of design, when designers encode tech) vs. use. Hypodermic needle : domination, opening up brain and brett putting whatever radical. Negotiated/oppositional readings : active roles played on both ends of encoding and ideas in your head, ideology in a syringe injected in people decoding, you can push back. * the exercise of power relationships has been transformed by developments in communication technologies.