[COMS 2003] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 25 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 2003
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

To appreciate something means to appreciate it"s full value . Ex: with a painting, we would appreciate the artist, the medium, the message, its reception, historical context, inspiration, etc. To take pleasure in the study of communication and to appreciate the value of all of the complex ways that people over time have sought to explain what it means to communicate. ira wagman. Democracy will have its full consummation when free social inquiry is indissolubly wedded to the art of full and moving communication. - john. ^ what holds us together, makes us a society, prevents people from killing themselves and each other, makes society flourish, is when communication is full and moving. The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities.