COMM 2102 Lecture 8: COMM2100 _ Lecture 8 .docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2102
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Major contribution: sociological tradition, effects of communication are explained sociologically, use of the function of communication in society, canadian scholars, harold innis, marshall mcluhan. Criticized technological determinists: someone who believes there is a one to one relationship between a technological development and a social development, social change is determined by technology, harold innis, economists and historian writing about cod, fur trade, pulp and paper (trees, interested how resources travel from place to place. Nations become powerful: concern with power, concern with space, people that can control space can exercise power of, he is noticing the power of communication in the role of time and space space. Forms of communication determines how societies are organized: transitions from orality to literacy changes the materiality of communication and the institutions that are built up around it, main idea: all forms of communication have consequences towards the control of space and time.