COMS 230 Lecture 35: COMS 230 -

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 230
• Professor: Cayley Sorochan

Document Summary

Paper return: wednesday, december 14th at 11:00am in prof"s office. Values central to democracy take material from in networked communication technologies. A situation where the value central to democracy take material form in network communication technologies. Access, discussion, participation in expansion of global communications. The more value is accumulated in an upward direction. Idea that more communication is better and will lead to more democracy. She counters and argues that the opposite happen: the more messages means that the less impact they have. It just matters that we"re communicating more and more. Any discussion end up displacing political action but the opposite happens. Idea that the network public sphere is a global and flat sphere of equality that includes everything. It will address material from 7-13 in course pack. Basic understanding of the public sphere is going to be useful. Both a direct reference to particular ideas in the readings are helpful.