ATS1280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Hysteria, Mass Communication
27 Aug 2018
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Systems, processes and outcomes of everyday interactions with the world around us. It comes in many forms such as: aural, visual, written or gestural. It is also a form of marketing, advertising. Communications can help transmit meaningful or non-meaningful messages. Very big part of film and tv culture. Communication is basically in all sorts of mass media platforms. Communication can vary depending on culture and countries. Thompson does not restrict his focus to interpersonal speech or writing but also argues that a theory of communication can encompass all acts of meaning making, including gestures and images. Negotiates and moderated the relationship between different discourses of communication. Media that transmit a message to a large number of people. Shapes society and values that are said to bind us together. E. g. , printing press brought with it significant cultural changes allowed masses of people to become better informed and also increased the rates of literacy.
