CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychographic, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Communication Studies
23 Jan 2018
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Cs 101 - b: lecture: wednesday, january 3rd, 2018: Lecture notes: intro to canadian communications in context: Key debates, questions, specialized vocabulary, theory & theorists. Language, communication practices, canadian institutions, policy and law, changing technologies and media. Communication studies explores the way in which information is given meaning by those who produce, distribute and interpret it. Mass media are studied for the content of their programs, the way those programs are produced and the impact of various influences on programming. Communication studies focuses on how particular images are presented in films, advertisements, press statements, news reports, government documents. Purpose of communication analyses is to identify full range of meanings, see how meanings are structured into final message that people receive and examine the impact of what is being communicated. Some of the most important work in communication studies was done by harold innis.
