CS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hypodermic Needle Model, Electric Light, Technological Determinism
11 Dec 2015
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Conceptualizing communication: the field of communication studies. What study is key in global change today. There is no more clarity about communications as a professional field than as a research field (calhoun, 2011, 14940. We might embrace our mercurian identity --mercury being the roman god of trade, travel, and rogues and of course communication. Mercurians are minorities who inhabit the in between spaces and specialize in productive and dangerous trades. There are certain advantages to being a minor player. You can learn many tongues from all over (john durham) Real world problems do not come sorted like discipline. When faced with task of communicating in the disciple of communication we shouldn"t be satisfied. We have to take on the challenge of asking our self-what"s different with all these subfields. Paul lazarsfeld (1941) remarks on administrative and critical communication research studies in philosophy and social science 9(1)
