CMN 1160 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Areopagitica, High Culture, Information Society

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Kyle Conway

Document Summary

Method is the approach scholars take in describing the role of some object of study in society. Predictive value: we can say with confidence that if the initial conditions are reproduced, the outcome of an experiment should be more or less the same. There are the producers, who create programming, the distributors, who deliver it, and the viewers, who watch or consume it. Figure 1. 2 describes the corresponding acts of pro- duction, distribution, and reception as stages in a circuit. First is the idea that a program moves through each of the three stages. In a strict historical sense, broadcasting as a technology refers to 1) sending out sound and image 2) by means of radio waves 3) through space 4) for reception by the general public. Large transmitters send out signals in the form of elec- tromagnetic (or radio) waves. High culture, popular culture and folk culture are different forms.