COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - O. J. Simpson, Polysemy, Roland Barthes

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

Document Summary

Think that media shows us reality, like a mirror or window. Media only shows us one side of story (bias), oversimplifies an issue. Citizen journalists seek to find the unbiased truth and help to progress a legitimate new-media news outlet. Conventions: technological (shutter speed), aesthetic (colour), social (framing) The use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us. We use words and images to understand, describe, and define the world as we see it. The word podium or an image of a podium; you understand the meaning of that word. Still life painting: motivated by desire to reflect material objects as they appear in the world, rather than trying to represent them (give a version of reality) Not a mirror of real life, but representation of real life that carries specific means. We construct the meaning of things through the process of representing them.