CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Short Message Service, Transistor Radio, Citizen Journalism

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Comparative essay due october 28th, 2015 (can you read two aricles and compare it) Core theme: from broadcasing to new media. Core theme: media afordance can encourage new pracices. Core theme: contemporary communicaions can challenge the social order. Mobile vulgus refers to changeable/malleable and refers to common people (the masses). Portable vs. mobile limited/not being used/constrained/structurally contained. 2014 62% canadians own a smortphone (crtc) 2015 64% us households/people own a smartphone (pew) 2015 39% us households are wireless only (no landlines) Mobile technologies are important not because of any given set of technological atributes but rather because of the ways we use them to mediate social relaions. Text messages or short message service (sms) is a mechanism of delivery of short messages over the mobile networks, it is a store and forward way of transmiing messages to and from mobiles.