COMM 2102 Lecture Notes - Super Bowl

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2102
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Communication as rituals and as deliberation (how we decide to do something) Reading from this week has to do with political reasons and how its brings people together. What we are discussing today can best be described as things that we do or practices or ways of doing. The study of ritual communication thus requires attention to both the explicit use of communication in formal rites and ceremonies of the formal elements of everyday activities . Makes you a part of a group of people, and then you inherit these ritual values. They have historically been related to religion, and now has become incredibly secularized and mediatized. We don"t do things, we read or watch things. Religion is first and foremost a system of ideas by means of which individuals imagine the society of which they are members and the obscure yet intimate relations they have with it . There is a history to thinking about communication as rituals.