CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Digital Divide, Communication Source, Participatory Culture
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Without the information we don"t have any idea what is happening. Media destroyed time & space (you choose when to do and see what u want) Canadians spend a full work with a month online consuming media. Mobile is growing and canada is moving away from tradition television and moving to mobile subscribers. Telegraph: key technology in shrinking space through time", reducing time it took to accomplish particular tasks in space. Communication: form of social action, communication media affects us on an individual, societal & global levels, act of making something common btwn 2 or more people. Figure 1. 2 (p. 10 mcc) :: model of communication. Figure 1. 3 (p. 11 mcc) :: social model on communication. Set the stage through a bias lens. Mass media: one form of mass media can involve multiple types of media, ex, new media: emerged in 90s, media creates social reality from there perspectives.