COMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wordperfect, Vise, Spacetime
5 Sep 2016
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3 parts in peters reading: (1) historical record, (2) historical transmission, (3) interpretation. Historical record questing what moves forward through the historical record, the ways in which media involves the storage of information and moves it forward. Historical transmission a record that extends and connect the past to the present. Trans- mission is a model for communication, the way communication theorists speak about commu- nication. Interpretation debate around whether or not communication is about sending/ receiving messages, or something richer. Human activity that all people recognize, but few can define. Communication is talking to an- other, television, spreading information . Fighting the fires along the way as a means to communicate. An early form of communication (fall of troy) Communication transmission: was the message received and interpreted correctly (very simple as it would be a yes or no answer) Beginnings of literature in the western world beginning of story-telling.
