CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Participatory Culture, Rogers Centre, Prosumer

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Christine Quail

Document Summary

Communication media affect us on individual, societal and global levels. Internet has allowed individuals to become content producers, not just content consumers. Communications technology has the ability to shrink space (telegraph, telephone, radio, television and internet) To look analytically at the ways media are implicated in our knowledge and understanding of the world (page 8) Ask whose or what interest do media serve and what role do they play in creating and maintaining relationships, particularly in relations of wealth and power? (page 8) Considers how language, culture, media the social contexts frame and determine not only the meaning but the kinds of messaging we create (page 10) Critical does not = complaining or trashing . The act of making a message common to one or more people (page 9) The act of transmitting and exchanging information and meaning through any form of language. There are different ways of conceptualizing this broad de nition 3 models.