COMM 2102 : Sept 19.docx
Document Summary
Ideas of communication have been around for thousands of years: this is seen in the plato reading people have always been thinking of communication, aspects of communication have been taking up for thousands of years, but it wasn"t until recently that people started theorizing about communication (modernity, with the expansion of media technologies it allowed communication to emerge as an object. Messages: a message not received can be heartbreaking, writing without a reply is something that is very dispiriting, the quote from the pillow book (written in 1000) shows that people have always been thinking about communication, with all these old forms of communication there are lots of people who wrote about these forms and the problems of not receiving a response, the check mail button shows us the incredible power of a message from far away that might surprise us, this is why spam emails are so powerful.