CCT210H5 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
6 Dec 2017
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Newspaper: syntext: a text that imparts the illusion of connectivity among what would otherwise be perceived as fragmented random texts by simply synthesizing them in an organized fashion. It"s this text that provides an illusion where things are uniquely connected to other things, where we read them as unique texts: at the level of the signifier, newspapers are perceptibly different, the toronto sun vs. The globe and mail: the toronto sun provides various news that is different. But using syntext, it creates an illusion that the news is connected. Random news is organized in a synthesize way, producing an illusion of connectivity: 19th century british newspaper: no images in the whole newspaper. This is a very dense style of newspaper, unlike today where we now have images and photos in newspapers. They are now diversified by font change, addition of images and photos pleasing for the viewer.
