COMS 3500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Soundscape, Sound Recording And Reproduction, Alternative Facts
3 Apr 2020
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Appadurai and peters are making different arguments about the fields of communication and what the field should be doing (in terms of surveying) App. thinks the field is glossing over ideas about globalization/global south. Communication is focused more about the global north. Peters is interested in thinking about this civilizational mode of thinking in comm. (cultural and social developments of humans in the world/society) Environment allows us to think through issues of space. Radio space: radial organization, multiple connected centers, open plans, material lightness. Radio started emerging into urban environments, providing material supports for its own broadcast. Radio gave rise to new purpose-built, architectures, revolutionizing spatial containment and sound production, which connects radio to the space bias (harold innis) Teaches us about movement, signals, the sending/receiving of signals. Radio space: radial organization, multiple connected centers, open plans, ample vistas, material lightness. Radio emerged into urban environments that presented both material supports for and impediments to its own broadcast.
