COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Msnbc, Citizen Journalism, Online Identity

• School: Elon University
• Department: Communications
• Course: COM 100
• Professor: Vanessa Bravo

Document Summary

Comm in a global age chapter 1 (roughly) It includes the ways in which people live and represent themselves at particular historical themes. The symbols of expression that individuals, groups, and societies use to make sense of daily life and to articulate their values. Communication: the creation and use of symbol systems that convey information and meaning (for example, spoken languages, the morse code, motion pictures, and even one-zero binary computer codes) Mass media: the cultural industries the channels of communication that produce and distribute cultural products to large numbers of people. For instance, individual tv stations, networks, cable providers, newspapers, movie studios, websites, apps, and others . Mass communication: the process of creating cultural messages and stories, and delivering them to a large and diverse audience through media channels as old and distinctive as the printed book and as new and converged as the internet. The linear models (transmission models: shannon and weaver, 1949; lasswell, 1948;