COMN 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Roland Barthes, Semiotics, Bourgeoisie

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Chapter 1 of the book, poliics, society and the media , by paul nesbit-larking, introduces the ideas that will be discussed throughout the chapters. It introduces its readers the subtle and muli-faceted ways in which power and representaion are interwoven. It also talks about the very nature of communicaion and interacion. How we are capable of complex internal dialogue which give us the ability to self talk , relect, understand and explain the world. The chapter discusses the two concepts, media and poliics, which are the driving forces that play a signiicant role in the formaion of our society. Symbolic animals (nesbit-larking) connect us to the reading, the need to communicate writen by wade rowland, which elaborates on the evoluion of language. Greek wriing, literacy was only uilized to small, highly trained elites. Plato thought oral culture stood in the way of intellectual growth because it trapped people in a state where learning are.

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