COMS 230 Study Guide - Final Guide: New Social Movements, Authoritarianism, Prosumer

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 230
• Professor: Cayley Sorochan

Document Summary

Two parts: part a is same as midterm (meaning and signi cance of two terms and connecting them) + part b essay questions in relation to course material. Essays worth 35% each: networked public sphere, political uses of emerging media. Tactical media: how emerging media contains/structures politics. Digital labour: the critique of publicity. Constraints to our expectations and activities and what we believe is possible. Critiquing publicity and rethinking some of the norms. Networked public sphere: distinction between mass media and distributed architecture. Describing the internet as an architecture of freedom, the internet has made the public sphere better. This revitalization is based on the characteristics of networks or distributed architecture, it is worth reviewing these distinctions. Mass media architecture is comprised of few high cost producers of info and one-way transmission of info, absence of links via the same media and very limited storage and search capacity. In distributed architecture there is multi-directional distribution, prosumers and producers.