COM 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Neil Postman, Ethnocentrism, Stereotype
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The way that community/society communicates depends on what it considers communication at the time. As we introduce new forms of communication, society changes. Also establishes a greater sense of identity (and widens differences between groups: the people of the caves had low life-expectancy for many reasons. Information is extremely limited so societies are very close-minded. Information is not written down so important info like remedies gets lost in translation. These people drew pictures on cave walls to communicate inter- group. Could be interpreted as account of daily life. Also could be seen as instructional (e. g. these bison live in the area of this cave: pre-writing cultures communicated through storytelling. The first forms of writing 5,000 years ago: cuneiform, hieroglyphics, originated in the middle east, with writing came the ability to record history, the first thing we did with words was to establish powers.