COMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Communication Studies

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 200
• Professor: Christopher Gutierrez

Document Summary

Communication is one of those human activities that everyone recognizes, but few can de ne . Ex. hairstyle, fashion question of whether we can study this. Perec interested in the parts of everyday life that becomes ordinary, what we don"t pay attention to. Majority of these things have been described, photographed, registered intention to describe the rest: what is happening when nothing is happening . When we are talking about the media, it is about extraordinary events; the big events rather than the everyday events that occur simultaneously. Through media representation we get extraordinary events, not the everyday things [real life] Interested in how we communicate and how we live. Coal miner: everyday life is a practise that will eventually kill him. There are things that are happening around us that are not regarded. Media[2]: the main means of mass communication (television, radio, newspapers, and the. Perec treats all media the same problem.