All Educational Materials for COMS 3500 at Carleton University

Lecture 11 Water, Dirt, Oil Elements Elements have been monetized or exploited by people who dont always have as much of a stewardship over it as others (ex: Indigenous Peoples) Elements as media mat...

[COMS 3500] Comprehensive fall guide including any lecture notes, textbook notes and exam guides.find more resources at oneclass.com Lecture One – Title Time • Time has always been expressed through the body...

Lecture 10 Data Centre Lecture Data centre vs natural environment Data centres alongside the supercentre and the distribution centre Generates a massive amount of data in real time (ex: bar code) ...

Lecture 9 Distribution Centre We Love Logistics Desire/fantasy of everything working smoothly Logistics/Supply chain management Worthy of our critical attention in media studies because the movement o...

Lecture 8 Shipping Container Infrastructure Internet is, in fact, material (made of tangible things) Network as inadequate word to describe the Internet and sea cables o In actuality, they are mu...

Lecture 7 Pylon + Cable Undersea Cables Networks as container medias (cables contain) What networks are actually made of (elements of infrastructure)? Feedback loop = technical -> social -> technical ...

Lecture 6 Cybersyn + Minitel Beginning After Leninism and Stalinism, people wanted to break up the fear and paranoia characterized by Stalins rule o Weirdly liberal space of possibility ...

Lecture 7 Cybersyn + Minitel Beginning After Leninism and Stalinism, people wanted to break up the fear and paranoia characterized by Stalins rule o Weirdly liberal space of possibility ...

Lecture 5 Networks: Arpanat + Ogas Network Networking is often associated with making connections, frameworks for communications networks (ex: Rogers, Bell, etc.), neighbourhood communities, online ...

Lecture 3 The Phone Booth Object The phone booth as TARDIS appropriate choice for a time machine? o Phone booths as time machines back to a culture of urban life that is slipping away. ...

Lecture 4 The Smartphone Adam Greenfield takes an object (the smartphone) which is literally a black box and opens it for us (un-black boxs it) o Claims the smartphone is the signature artifact of...

Lecture 2 The Telephone Landlines not used anymore But phones themselves have certainly NOT faded away Telephone often gets overlooked in media studies for broadcasting types of media Part of th...

Lecture One Title Time Time has always been expressed through the body o Rose with the sun/slept with the dark o Measured time through heartbeats o Through reproduction Time ...

December 13, 2016 COMMUNICATION AND SCIENCE 1. DEFECIT, DEBUNKING AND DENIAL: FACTORIENTED MODELS OF SCIENCE AND COMMUNICATION A. Reading: Bauer+Falade, Public understanding of science A.i. Public understanding of science ...

How do media raise ethical issues? Today's lecture is about right and wrong-ethics is the philosophical study of morality. We study ethics because we want to explore big questions about how we are to live as human and how ...