COMS 3500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ernst Cassirer, Immanuel Kant, Gender Role

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 3500
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Components of communicative exchange: sender-medium-receiver, technologies and techniques, time/space, action and interaction, estimations of audience behavior, dynamics of power and control. Ernst cassirer: space and time are the framework in which all reality is concerned. Building blocks that we use in order to theorize about how we communicate today: dialogue, dissemination, translation, failure, note: not theories themselves. Old themes: anxieties of ability to communicate successfully", proliferation of things that disseminate". Increasing sense of control (and its lack) due to explosion of communication: anxieties about blurring of private and public realms, recognition of the importance of culture in framing or determining spread of ideas, meaning, and interpretations. New themes: expanding power of algorithms in decision-making processes, greater ability to exercise control at a distance, greater expectations for receivers to offer feedback", and to generate. Reactions": massive expansion of surveillance, major expansions of memory, especially at the individual level.