COMM 2102 Study Guide - Major Force, Behaviorism, Technological Determinism

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

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What directs the path of your life: the middle: things that come in-between. For example: middle class, midfielder, medium, etc: mediation: things that come in-between us and the things that we want to do or our pathway through life. Lots of things mediate our pathway; more things now mediate through media. For example: timetable, bus schedule, socio-economic status mediate between you and your ability to find a suitable mate, choice of music or movies, the time you wake up in the morning, etc. Our understanding comes from past things that may be biological or sociological or linguistic, etc. For example: eating behaviors or rituals from tradition. Mediation is a constant process; life is constant mediation. Through this process the world makes sense to you. Thus, everything is constantly mediated by other things, that test assumptions and causes us to go in another or the same direction says hegel: media mediation through history.