COMM 2102 Lecture Notes - Theodor W. Adorno, Culture Industry

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

Document Summary

Last part of the series of lectures on media and politics. Reflected on what it means to be political and how we can think of communication as political, look at this question through notions of participation and deliberation and thinking about the public. Previously talked about groups of people as masses, what we are studying used to be called mass. Communication is permanent debate communication is theoretical, when everything is said and done. We have no real agreement on what it exactly is consider the small number of things we might be able to agree on, we can agree that communication involves a sender, message, medium, receive. Within each one of those it is not clear that we would come to terms on the subjects, are they plural or singular, we could be talking about a number of things. The message can be different in many ways, happy, sad etc.