[COMM 1010] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (41 pages long!)

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMM 1010
• Professor: Dijana Jelaca

Document Summary

Generally divided into periods pre- and post-industrial revolution (circa 1850) Industrial revolution: transition to new, mechanized manufacturing processes (took place in period between 1760s-1840s) Factory system, steam power, machine tools, modern labor system, capitalism. Karl marx (industrialization, political economy, capitalism, social class, labor, exploitation, proletariat, etc. ) Around 1850, formal study of communication became a more active discipline of scientific inquiry. Mass production became dominant > mass communication influenced. Worker gets detached from what they produce (dehumanizing) Classical rhetorical scholars in ancient greece to enlightenment period. Accomplishments of male scholars were the focus. Harder to find women scholars, for example. Pro-western bias bc ancient greece is always beginning focus. 2,500 yrs ago, aristotle, socrates, plato and other rhetoricians taught public speaking and persuasion, which marks what we refer to as classical period of communication study. Fantastic four = aspasia of miletus, socrates, plato, aristotle. Forefathers (and foremother) of rhetoric and field of communication as whole.