MDSA01H3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Characters From The Docks Of The Wire, Norm (Social), Karl Marx
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Lecture 1: media as ubiquitous, media reality vs. actual reality, (cid:862)co(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess i(cid:374)dust(cid:396)ies(cid:863) Information that comes to us through some indirect channel or medium. [conceptualizations] of representation. (cid:863) (cid:862)we (cid:373)ake ou(cid:396) tools, a(cid:374)d the(cid:374) ou(cid:396) tools (cid:373)ake us. (cid:863) Media as something that expands the human sensorium. We change the world through the media we create. We are changed by the media we create. What a(cid:396)e the (cid:862)mass media(cid:863): print media, film and sound recording, broadcast media, new media. Who discovered water? (cid:862)we li(cid:448)e i(cid:374)(cid:448)ested i(cid:374) a(cid:374) ele(cid:272)t(cid:396)i(cid:272) i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t that is (cid:395)uite as i(cid:373)pe(cid:396)(cid:272)epti(cid:271)le to us as (cid:449)ate(cid:396) is to fish. (cid:863) ma(cid:396)shal m(cid:272)luha(cid:374), cou(cid:374)te(cid:396)(cid:271)last (cid:894)1969(cid:895) Why study media? it is an epistemological question (how do we know what we know?) Media studies and epistemology: how we know, somatically through direct sensory experience the body, symbolically through someone or something else, a medium, socialization.
