Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture 10: October 14th 2014 WHAT THE COURSE IS.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G
• Professor: Tim Blackmore

Document Summary

Journalism (has to be objective, no bias must be held, don"t get involved but its really not a thing), public relations (determined to tell a certain story in a certain setting, place, aimed to sell, should look like journalism, aimed towards the truth), communications, media literacy (field that looks at media, how different cultures view media, ways in which we are influenced by our culture: whats in 1200 for you, need to know how to read many kinds of texts, why these specific media, we are living in a construct of our own, why science fiction, because its different from what you already know, where we"ve been & are going.