Soc325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Orality, James Nachtwey, Oral Tradition
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Media (the means how it"s done) th , 2015: technologies, communication arguably always implies a medium. Communication (the act: conveying a message to someone, technologies (often involved, social interaction through messages (john friske) Information: the messages/content, what is being conveyed, the what . Conventional media (practical media: newspapers, radio, television, billboards/advertisements, the internet, magazines. Unconventional media (things justified as media: word of mouth, podcasts, art (dance/drawings), sign language, movies/documentaries, fashion, paintings, tattoos/piercings, video games, music, tipping (restaurants) Continuing from last day: communication definition who said what to whom through, mass communications one-way communication; normally from, mass media the technologies to communicate mass which channel with what effect? (harold lusswell) Unlike many of our wars and switching of rulers, information revolutions create changes, intended or not, that stick. Gutenburg in 1455: began the process of literacy among the people, protestant reformation really launched this, became a tool that ordinary people gradually used.