[Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (58 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Sasha Torres

Document Summary

M e d i a , i n f o rm a t i o n a n d te c h n o c u l t u re 2 2 0 0 f / g. Always contained through the architecture of the work. Anthropology, literary studies, psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology. Structuralism has had an enormous impact across a variety of fields: language as a term of differential meaning, language as a model through structuralist type approaches. Structuralists view social and cultural phenomena as bearing meaning and thus as signs: parts of differential systems, not as having them as systems of meaning. Kicking a ball between 2 posts has no intrinsic meaning. In the larger system of sports this has a meaning of scoring a goal . Only within the system of sports does this gesture have an impact and thus a meaning. Structure determines the position of every element.