CS101 Lecture Notes - Canadian Content, Chinese Whispers, Communication Studies
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Week 2: intro to communication studies, the structures and institutions of mass media. One of these is fact-based, and one isn"t. Considers the role of communication in the ongoing production of social relations. Sender(s) message medium message receiver(s) who says what channel to who effect. Cnn is sending a message through television to us. Channel-movies or film, how the message is sent. Misunderstanding occurs when there is a failure in the process. Many theorists do not like the linear model: Communications is the production (reproduction) and exchange of meanings (sharing) These meanings could be: world in a particular way. The broken telephone game can be used as an analysis for communications. The production, exchange and circulation of these meanings is tied to social power (social relations) There is power in: identities who we are. How we think about ourselves: ideologies how do we see and understand the world. If you are buddhist you see the: social norms and traditions.
