CMST 3H03- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 77 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 3H03
• Professor: Dr. Baade

Document Summary

On avenue: readings & reading questions, assignment guides, materials, lecture slides, other resources. This course introduces students to the history and historiography of communications and media. At the most basic level, students will become familiar with the historical development of key media forms (including newspapers, radio, television, and the internet) with particular attention to the canadian context. We will consider both: how media technologies, systems, and content have been shaped by the societies in which they emerged and, how they have impacted political, economic, and cultural life. The aim is to develop the cognitive habits of what lendol calder calls historical mindedness : Questioning, connecting, sourcing, making inferences, considering alternate perspectives and recognizing the limits to one"s knowledge (2006). The past: all the stuff before everything. Donald godfrey (2007: (1) context for the present and future, (2) complimentary methods, better thinking, quantitative methods, qualitative methods course, having these tools in our pockets valuable to anyone"s discourse.