04:189:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intersubjectivity

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:101
• Professor: All

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2 18 14: roadmap, 1. People involved in comm process: symbols. Something that stands for or represents something besides itself. Ex: us flag, traffic lights, rutgers logo, money. Symbolic value arbitrary relationship between symbol and thing it represents. Very powerful, and seem real: media. Permanence: media and technology makes comm visible & make it survive, other comm is very fleeting. Portability: invisible aspects of comm process, meaning. How does it get made: symbols & referents are arbitrarily paired, meanings are negotiated through human activity. Ex: south park & meaning making as a social process: steps the southpark kids take to change meaning of derogatory term, 1. Make bikers start using it to refer to themselves: 4. Instinctive reaction: ex: putting hand on stove. 2nd order info-processing events: more symbolic value & meaning. Learn through socialization: e. g. cultural norms, conventions, trick-or-treat scene, subjectivity. Shared/common ground intersubjectivity: two overlapping fields of experiences, negotiation.