CMST 3H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Staples Thesis, Imagined Community, Savings Account

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 3H03
• Professor: Dr. Baade

Document Summary

Innis: canadian context: staples thesis, media and empire, nation, time- v. space-based media. Imagined community: there"s this imaginary sense in the morning you are also aware that thousands/millions of other people are reading similar news. If you work in a basic community, it doesn"t matter what time it is. Nation: horizontal-secular-transverse-time, you have a sense of time that connects all of you through mass and space. Canada the story of us (2017), episode 4: connection . What ideas about transportation and communication technology are we seeing here: we are excited obvious from the music, makes it seem like it"s difficult to do, have to build a bridge over the river. Even a film produced in 2017 played with the themes made by charland in 1986. Canadian national identity- not just a particular idea of culture, but argues that it"s defined by space- binding technologies: defined not by culture/people, defined by space-binding technologies, large country.