COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Heliograph, Socratic Method, Luddite

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Chris Russill

Document Summary

Communications and transportations: train canada"s transportation helped communication. Media technologies: speech, writing, printing press, telegraph, phonography, radio, film, television, computation. Pace of innovation: big new things are coming more rapidly, communication was dependent on transportation until about 1850. Reactions to new media: sublime technology is great, sceptic luddite technology is dangerous, point of concern: historical view, cultural impact, google & other new media technologies try to get our attention. Just for shallow reasons: some technology is intentionally bad so that you need to upgrade. Content" of a new medium is the old medium: remediation": the representation of one medium in another (bolter and grusin, 1999, p. 45; see carr page 89 for something along these lines) Socrates: socratic method oral discourse, writing/reading will not help knowledge, just memorization, believes a teacher is important, believed reading makes us shallower thinkers. Hegemony: indirect rule; coercion through consent; domination through culture.