CCT110H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: University Of Toronto Mississauga, Fact Checking, Podcast

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT110H5
• Professor: Rhonda Mc Ewen

Document Summary

Persuade through speaking, through art, through images, sound, podcasting etc. Using language effectively to persuade, inform, educate or entertain. Rhetoric is the study of how knowledge is created and shared, through communication practices that include reading, writing and speaking. Able to tell the credibility of the source/person/article " Focus and think about the bigger picture; about a more balanced perspective. Thinking about media forms, tools, and how to effectively use them (ie. media affordances) What are the opportunities of the constraints of the object. Ex. an iphone; constraints: battery life; resolution: portable battery packs. As a device, it must rely on certain things to reach full potential. Google pixel phone has no physical buttons, only virtual; the pixel phone virtual buttons are all software driven vs an iphone/ipad which has a physical home button at the bottom of the screen.