JOURN 201- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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1:11 pm: no discussion sections this week, short writing assignment 1 due next week. How tv affects the brain of young children: synapses grow and mature overtime, too little stimulation is bad. 1970-children start watching television at the age of 4. Optimistic bias-we tend to live our lives thinking that bad things will not happen to us. Ex: getting into a car accident while texting. 1:34 pm: professionalization of human communication, humans as story tellers. We don"t use walls anymore to tell our stories. Imagine a world where you had to learn everything about life without anyone else. Your parents teach you not to put your hand in a flame: humans as story tellers become professionals. Traditionally stories told by families, schools, groups. The process by which a person, group of people, or large organization creates a message and transmits it through some type of medium to a large, anonymous, heterogeneous audience.
