CMN 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jargon, Techne, Episteme

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 432
• Professor: Jessica Mudry

Document Summary

Techne constitutive model accounts for: tone, sarcasm, body language, etc. Episteme transmission model omits the aforementioned things. The purpose of university is to produce knowledge: assumption of degrees: Phd (cid:894)do(cid:272)torate(cid:895): (cid:862)produ(cid:272)e(cid:863) a (cid:271)ody of k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge: point of going to uni. (since there were no majors in the old ages): Pre 18th/19th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tury: you (cid:449)ould"(cid:448)e studied lati(cid:374), logi(cid:272), a(cid:374)d rhetori(cid:272) Rhetoric being the center of uni education. Techne (practice: episteme: (the purpose/ curriculum of university has changed to this. ) To put things in an orderly form. Ex// reading a recipe (cid:862)did you get it? (cid:863: techne: Ex// playing an instrument and knowing all the notes (cid:862)what effe(cid:272)t did i ha(cid:448)e? (cid:863) Technocratic model: that the best technology exists and will come out to help the world. In reality, technology exists but is not communicated effectively, and thus, does not allow certain ideas to be presented to the world. Episte(cid:373)e: (cid:862)to k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:863) typically abstract scientific principles.