COMS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Economic History, Substantivism, Medical Illustration

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Comm. Studies
• Course: COMS 240
• Professor: Peter Van Wyck

Document Summary

Walter benjamin, the work of art in the age of its technological. Reproducibility, in the work of art in the age of its technological. Michael w. jennings et al (cambridge, ma: belknap press of harvard university press, 2008), 19-55. Marshall mcluhan, the medium is the message, understanding media, (toronto: mcgraw-hill, 1964), 7-21. What is the broad sense of media effects? (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:894)peters(cid:895) limited effects (l&m; schramm) Publics; counter-publics (habermas; fraser) change in perception (benjamin; mcluhan) Media as extensions of ourselves (our senses): what happens to perception in a mediated environment? change in methods of perception (media systems) alters social conditions. Examines the particular qualities of a media technology. Media technologies may bring about different forms or patterns of human and social organization. 4 senses of the term, mediation, as a process: interceding or coming between (filter, abridge, a negotiation, a transformation towards greater technologization, communication as a process involves some element of all four of these definitions of mediation.