MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Imperialism, Chinese Whispers, Electrical Telegraph
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Somatically these are things we know through direct sensory perception of our environment we know how some things look, smell, taste or sound because we have personally experienced with them. Symbolically these are things we know through someone or something such as a parent, friend, teacher, books, radio, movies, internet etc. Symbolically information is mediated meaning that is came to us via some indirect channel or medium. Mass medium any of the means of communication, as television or newspapers, that reaches very large numbers of people. Prior to mass media, information came from people messages were communicated by people thus travelled slowly and was altered each time (e. g. broken telephone) Personal media information from people e. g. hand written letters. Critical media studies is about the social and cultural consequences of that revolutionary capability. Media is a broad term that includes a diverse array of communication technologies such as human beings, cave drawings, smoke signals, radio, telephone, books, film etc.
