[CMST 2C03] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (50 pages long)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2C03
• Professor: Philip Rose

Document Summary

Items confusing aspects: general commentary, 1 good discussion questions. Something that comes btwn us and our environment. Technology relationship to medium is the brain (physical) to the mind (how u use it) Anything that mediates expand what we are thinking about in terms of what mediates. Complexes of mediums is many mediums in one. Product of human creativity is a medium. Not a medium if no human is there to be mediated. Scientific thought to be true build evidence (evolution factual) Comm built systematic but may not be true, have evidence to believe its true. Practical evidence brought to support theory bridge btwn theory and practice. Evidence may derive from empirical research (surveys, interviews, analysis of text, historical docs) How much free will we have with media. Agency of evolution is to adapt to new things in environment. Present minded: electronic culture focused on the present not the future.