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Thesis of course: loss in relationship to melancholy and mourning; and the crisis of language. Eliot argues that modern lit. has to be difficult becaus

Internet was referred to as an informational tool. The first theoretical predecessors were encyclopedias, things that make knowledge available to every

Sign refers to something real (a referent) Sign refers to other signs that refer to something real (copies of originals) Signs refer only to themselves

Most of the public affairs programming was canadian by late fifties, but most of the comedies and dramas were american. 55% of airtime for broadcasters

*for exam you can bring one page of notes (double-sided, typed or written) Race/ethnicity are primordial (inherited, natural, essential) elements of id

No tv stations in canada before 1952. They were only able to watch american tv before 1952. People weren"t able to get into the tv business because the

Report the main idea of the work. Will open by naming the title and author of the work. Will be in your own words (no quotations) Will deal with a spec

Chapter one of technology and nationalism explains the primordial view and perrenialist view of nationalism. The primordial view is the belief that nat

Mit 1700 week 9: the new digital order search engines to wikipedia. Most families today need to work longer and have two incomes to have the same stabi

Email, weather network, brain signals, syllabus etc. Thermostats regulate the temperature of a room based on information output. Knowledge (which is or

A society that organizes itself around knowledge in the interest of social control and the management of innovation and change - daniel bell. The infor

Email, weather network, brain signals, syllabus, etc. Thermostats regulate the temperature of a room based on the information output. Knowledge (is org

We control people through luxuries and commodities. The soviets were not the only ones in the business of information gathering and use. The nazis, cia

If info is considered the new wealth, there is no doubt that there are people who want to consolidate this information for their own benefit. If inform

In 1405, all knowledge came from the bible and aristotle (died 1700 years before) Knowledge economy was controlled and operated by 10% of european pop.

Google books and digitization: a faustian pact with libraries. Drastic changed in how we access info came in 1960"s/70"s. Personal computers should be

According to him machines and humans can think the same, there"s no difference. Not a lot of people were happy with this so he answers 9 objections tha

Is a force that has had impact on our economic, social, technological lives that began with the dissolution of the soviet union 1991. No more worlds of

Idea of personal computer = new consumer market. If you spend so much time developing a program, you hope to be paid for it. Not really fair if people

Accessibility is supa important when it comes to information. If information were just about storage, it would be easy. But eventually we might want to

Semiotics take 1: the romans in films, toys, the new citroen. Mass media developed in relation to the emergence of mass society. The masses are a group

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death (french revolution) We align with certain countries and make other countries our enemies. How does it differ fr

Ludovig uses signs that construct a female gender. It is not defined by the object of its message, but by the way it utters its message; myth is a mode

Key question of this course: what is the function of media in our society: governance = intelligence, military = courage, merchant = appetite (desire)

Listened to john f. kennedy"s convocation speech the educated citizen . We will become educated citizens at uwo if all goes well. The future of humanit

Prior to the experience of modernity, owning a film would never happen. When you listened to music, you listened to it together as a group of people. L

Jacques derrida renowned french philosopher, died in 2004. They tried to speak about things that were going on around them. Derrida is a professional p

A disposable, popular graphic medium which uses a combination of images and text to convey a story. Initially appeared in newspapers more than 100 year

English 2200 lecture on karl marx and friedrich engels. The economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844. Translated to english and published in 1932.

Take and eat in remembrance that christ died for you, and feed on him in thy heart with thanksgiving - anglican communion service. And i (jesus) say un

English lecture (wordsworth and keats) november 16, 2010. Picture of neoclassical building and neo-gothic building. The most important of human faculti

English lecture what we all long for march 29, 2011. I"ll tell you what i"ve seen here at yongs and bloors at this crossroad - thirsty (2002) A coheren

Fourth act of a play/book is usually the weakest. We kind of know what"s going to happen already. Odd: he sometimes reaches out and addresses a hypothe

Cars are emblems of nationalities, not symbols. Brand knows the difference between an emblem and a symbol. City begins to fragment into different ident

Second lecture on t. s eliot"s the wasteland march 10, 2011. Dante; suggestion is that the typist and the young man are among the lowest inhabitants of

Three issues that loom largely in the third part of the poem: It deals with the illnesses (psychological, physical) of the modern world, and suggests c

In order to give us a collapsed view of the wasteland and to see the different elements of the wasteland. Where one piece of film is given to us and th

English lecture on sir gawain and the green knight (around october 26, 2011) Emblem + allegory = one meaning (emblematic adjunct) 939 - 1210 > manners

As you go up the ladder" : Characters become so well rounded you feel like you know them. Settings become much more complicated and detailed. The clima