CMNS 110 Lecture 3: Fall 2012 CMNS 110 Reading Notes Week 3.doc

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 110
• Professor: Gary Mc Carron

Document Summary

The effects of organizing time: channelling and flow of information, shape and form of networks connecting people, host of their important social and cultural features of society. Ways of organizing time: northern europe: one thing at a time; events scheduled as separate items monochronic m-time, mediterranean: involvement in several things at once . In shop: everyone all want attention of one clerk waiting on everybody at once: no queue or number to indicate who has been waiting the, confusion and clamour. In governmental bureaucracies longest: p-time: large reception area, business outside in semipublic setting, m-time: series of private meetings in inner office, p-time is more efficient. M-time is tangible: saved, spent, wasted, lost, made up, crawling, killed, running out, heavily scheduled development to industrial civilization. Other consequences of m-time: seals off two people from the group, intensifies relationships with one other person (at a time) M-time is arbitrary and imposed, learned: not inherent or existential in nature.