COMM 1101 Lecture : Communication and Media as Wartime Inheritance

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1101
• Professor: Chris Russill

Document Summary

Deeply deceitful and corruptive to human condition. Plato against poetry didn"t like the stories they told, played with people"s emotions. Oral society memory was important in order to teach. Plato didn"t like the hegemony poetry had over education in greek society. No benign stories; blood, guts, fire, rape, pillage, etc. Plato worried about corrupting influence on people"s morality; didn"t like content of curriculum. Proposed to ban poetry/poets in educational society. Crusades; church"s influence on people to fight and kill for god and the church. Propaganda: ignatius loyola, founded society of the jesuits, was sainted by. Pope gregory xv in 1622, and in that year the pope established the sacra. Congregation christiano homini propaganda or sacra congregation de. Propaganda fide: congregation for the propagation of the faith. Two functions: go to non-catholic lands and let people know about. Catholicism/convert people to catholicism, and modern propaganda war launched by martin luther (95 theses)