COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Walter J. Ong, Franz Mesmer, Outlast
19 Dec 2016
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People have always been theorizing about aspects of communication and media, but they didn"t call it comm and media. Doing something before you realize what you"re doing. Going to study the themes that are the foundations for the nature of comm and media. The pillow book quote - c. 1000; sei shonagon: one hopes that the message will reach its destination, waiting for a reply, these people were theorizing about comm and media but didn"t know it. It tells you how you are convinced to fall from someone. Its an elaborate persuasion for an argument - to take the argument i"m the one for you: what we need to know, believe or think to make decisions. The enlightenment is the shift from religion: ex. seeing is believing, allow us to see over other senses. Anxiety over the gap between the real and its representations. Belief that technology can do things that humans can"t.
