COMN 2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wag The Dog, Media, Culture & Society, Soltyrei

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 2700
• Professor: Steve Gennaro

Document Summary

Important info: monday 22nd - holiday, no class, wednesday 24th - test 1 (chapters 1 to 6) Questions about the test: one long essay question, minimum 3 pages for passing grade, single space, choose of one two questions. Chapter 1 to 6 + wag the dog: one page (front and back) of handwritten notes + book aloud, look at discussion points at the end of each chapter. If you break culture"s laws you don"t really get into trouble but if you break society"s rules there"s repercussions: representation, resemble, frames reality. it doesn"t provide reality, it just shows a part of it. Definitions: digital media: media such as digital video games, the internet, and other forms of computerized media that mathematically process and convert whatever information needs to be represented into numerical form. It is the most obvious level on which a sign communicates and it refers to the common-sense meaning of the sign.