CMST 2TM6- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 75 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2TM6
• Professor: Christine Quail

Document Summary

Completing definitions: communication, process of transmitting messages, production and exchange of meanings, media, technological, cultural, social, psychological apparatus the communicates, or that mediates communication. Social science/ humanities: theory: an interrelated system of concepts, ideas, arguments that help on under. /view a social phenomenon, frame, a lens, an explanation for what something mean, how something works. Logic based theory: axiom: statements about the relationship between two or more concepts. Which have been previously demonstrated in research: ex. Playing a violent video game makes people violent: proposition: predict what relationships are likely among two or more concepts given what we already know, ex. People who have been thought hurricanes before are forgetting how the bad they (cid:449)e(cid:396)e (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e. a(cid:374)d people (cid:449)ho ha(cid:448)e(cid:374)"t (cid:271)ee(cid:374) the(cid:396)e fo(cid:396) long have not experienced one before. Interactions: texts, context, social media, etc. (anything. Remember: theories help organize thought and make an issue understandable.