CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Consumerism, Peekaboo, Frankfurt School
5 Mar 2016
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The historical and cross cultural study of different cultural environments created by different media of communication. Each technology has a bias to a particular communication form, content and uses. The sequences of invention and application of communication technology influences the direction and pace of social change. Romanticized american print culture of the 18th and 19th century in the us as encouraging rationality, seriousness, coherence in thinking and public discourse. Saw television as responsible for the decline in the seriousness of public life. Postman comments on the impact of various technologies. Existed means that news no longer had to be relevant to its o! Telegraph changed" print in three ways: readers it was about what is happening now. The medium privileges entertainment and triviality (of little o! Tv doesn"t have to be about entertainment, you can watch educational shows as well. Commercial tv is favorable, and driven by social and economic factors.
