COMS 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Communication, Max Horkheimer, Marshall Mcluhan

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2003
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

The toronto school of communication: there was no such thing as the toronto school the theorists in this school" were never really part of a school. In the case of the frankfort school, horkheimer, adorno et al. always worked closely together, read and reviewed their research papers, discussed events all the time; the. However, we call it a school because they were all in the same city and most of them were affiliated with the university of toronto: h. a innis, marshall mcluhan, edmund carpenter, eric havelock, jacqueline tyrwhitt, Gave us a new way to think about culture and civilization: modes and devices through which human beings communicate. Both innis and mcluhan urged institutions and students to pay attention to these things; these factors tell us how these societies hold themselves together through time and cultural traditions (scared texts, stories, etc: technology organizes society.