CS203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Craig Calhoun, Omnipotence, International Communication Association
13 Mar 2016
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How information is transferred and received within society both interpersonally and within larger societies. Different categories under communications studies: media studies, advertising, visual media studies. A relatively young field: following the second world war, in the past 10 year communication studies has grown to expand dramatically. The increasing recognition of things that are studied by communication majors are key dimensions of global change. Rising enrollments in comm programs also tells us something about the aspirations of students who want to have careers in media. There is no more clarity about communications as a professional field than as a research field craig calhoun: the topics that are studied in our discipline are extraordinarily varied, looking at the sub areas. Very long list of sub-fields that hint at the range of topics that fall under the commucation studies umbrella. This diversity of topics is fed from the diversity of the background of the people who teach in comm studies.
