CMN2170- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 59 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Mass media system: one to many communication, few media (limited channels, concentrated ownership (limited sources) > costly, system limited to one-way: hard to distinguish between channel and source, > channel is the tool itself, the medium - conduit for info, > source - creator of that content ex journalist. 4 types (law, architecture, market,norms) - give example for each. The use of networks, databases, computers and sensors to overlay location or time-speci c info on top of a live display of the scene in front of the device (flew & smith, glossary) Reality that we know, not ctitious and tech adding to it and changing it (ex snapchat lters w the location included) Users indeed took an extra 194 steps a day once they started using the app (roughly 1/10th of a mile), or approximately 26% more steps, potentially adding in the aggregate 2. 83 million years to users" lives.
