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What are time and space-biased media?

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Media that emphasize time are those durable in character such as parchment, clay and stone. The heavy materials are suited to the development of architecture and sculpture. Media that emphasize space are apt to be less durable and light in character such as papyrus and paper.

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How are verbal and non verbal communication different?

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Verbal communication is the words and sounds that come out of our mouths when we’re speaking, including tone of voice and things like sighs and groans. Nonverbal communication, on the other hand, is the signs and messages that we communicate using things like body language, gestures, and facial movements.

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What is culture and how is it related to media?

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Media culture means that within a culture, the media increasingly influences other institutions (e.g. politics, religion, sports), which become constructed alongside a media logic. Since the 1950s, television has been the main medium for molding public opinion.

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What do the terms media gate keeper and media convergence mean?

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Media convergence describes the process by which computer devices and digitalization bring together various media technologies. Devices such as smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and smart automobiles spur and facilitate this process. The three C’s of media convergence are computing, communication, and content.

Gate keeping is the “process of culling and crafting countless bits of information into the limited number of messages that reach people every day, and it is the center of the media’s role in modern public life.

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Describe three views of language.

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prescriptive, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic

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Be able to define and recognize examples of the triangle of meaning, Sapir- Whorf Hypothesis, code switching, and proper meaning superstition.

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What are kinesics, haptics, proxemics, and chronemics?

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How do vocabulary, stories, and rites create organizational cultures?

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How do office spaces and ICTs exercise power over workers?

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What does it mean to say that our identities are socially constructed?

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What are avowed and ascribed identity?

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What is globalization?

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A social process in which the constraints of geography on social and cultural arrangements recede and in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding.

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What are some aspects of Global Media Conglomerates?

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  • Profit driven
  • Global media emerge from international trade
  • A few large conglomerates dominate global media industries
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How much money does Apple make a second?

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$1444

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What are some effects of globalization?

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  • Political
  • Organizational
  • Cultural
  • Personal
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What is society?

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A very large group of people organized into institutions held together over time through formalized relationships.

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What are some examples of society?

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  • Nations
  • Structures
  • Imagined Communities
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What is culture?

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The knowledge, beliefs, practices, and values of groups.

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What are some examples of culture?

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  • Brock University’s culture
  • Newfoundland culture
  • Surfers
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What does culture contain?

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  • Shared meanings
  • Defines our realities (how we think, feel, act)
  • Created through communication, including media
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What is the earliest, most universal form of human communication?

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  • Human spoken language is prehistoric, possibly up to 2.5 million years ago.
  • Language was first oral and then written, around 3200 BCE.
  • In the ‘modern’ era (1600s), human communication tools began to multiply beyond language and writing
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What is media?

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‘Media’ is the term used for types of communication technology: e.g., print, film, radio, TV, Internet…

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What is mass media?

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  • Mechanical, electronic and digital communication technologies,
  • used to produce and consume messages between senders and receivers,
  • distributed across time and space for economic profit and public service.
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What do media studies in humanity focus on?

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  • Focuses on the meaning of TEXTS
  • Literature, Film Studies
  • Visual Arts
  • Philosophy
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What do media studies in Social Sciences focus on?

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-Focuses on the meaning of media PRACTICES

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What are some approaches to media theory?

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  • Content
  • Political economic
  • Materialist
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Who is Harold Innis?

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  • Political economist interested in materiality of economic relations via the study of staples (fur, cod, timber)
  • Treated media as a system comprised of material relations involving people, objects, processes, organizations, and purposeful content delivery
  • Exemplary insight: notion of time & space ‘bias’ expressed via media materiality
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What is time biased media?

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  • Example: Monastic/University
  • Durable, but not very portable
  • Centralized governance supported by religious orders
  • Close-knit, proximal communities w/stark class divisions
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What is space biased media?

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Example: Enlightenment era scientific societies
- portable, but not very durable media (papyrus, paper, electric comm)
- decentralized governance supported by professionals & experts
- pluralistic, dispersed communities, complex divisions of labour

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Who is Marshall McLuhan?

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Interested in sensorial/physical imagery and affect in poetry
- Influenced by UofT colleagues:
* Innis: materiality
* Havelock: orality & literacy
- Carpenter: anthropology
- Frye: literary criticism
- McLuhan’s sudden media popularity garners a 1953 Ford Foundation Grant that sponsored a seminar series and Journal through the 1950’s
- Multidisciplinary approach lead to new way of looking at media under the umbrella of the “Toronto School”
- Distinguished from a more “instrumental” US approach and, in Europe, variously linguistic and/ or policy-oriented perspectives

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What are some aspects that are primarily related to Nonverbal communication?

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  • face
  • touch
  • space
  • gaze
  • kinesics
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What are some aspects that are primarily related to Verbal communication?

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Written words (texting)

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What is the Sapir-whorf hypothesis?

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– Language shapes our view of the world – Ex. Hindi: many words for relatives

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A language is:

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System of symbols * Rules: grammar, phonology, meaning
*Action
*Soup: We live in worlds of words
* Supports culture * Dynamic
* Misuse > Troubles

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How are languages dynamic?

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  • Languages die
  • New ones evolve
  • Dialects
  • Accents
  • Neologisms (new words), etc.
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What is male generic language?

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Form of exclusive language * Divides people into in/out groups
* “We Canadians”
*“If a visitor speaks Flemish, he will…” * Policeman (Police officer)
* Avoid this sexist power move!
* Less clear: Did you mean men only? or both? * Less accurate: Men appear more important

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What are the distinct types of nonverbal communication?

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kinesics
haptics
proxemics
chronemics

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What is organizational culture?

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“webs of shared meaning”
spun by people
“ways of thinking, acting and understanding work that are shared by members of an organization and that reflect an organization’s distinct identity

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What is ethnography?

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Participant observation
* For example
* Describe this room
* Start w/ a blank piece of paper.

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What are some subcultures at Brock?

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  • Student culture
  • BUSU culture
  • Volleyball team’s culture
  • TA culture
  • CPCF TA culture
  • Business TA culture
  • Faculty culture * UPC
  • “Keeners”
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What are organizational rites?

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‘Dramatic planned activities that bring together aspects of organizational culture in a single event’
* Brock Welcome Week as a rite of integration.

42
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What is race?

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  • A social construction (No scientific definition)
  • The SAME person would be of a different in “race” depending on context.
43
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What is sex based on?

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biological * genes
* hormones * genitalia

44
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What is gender based on?

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Social meaning of biology * cultural
* historical:LouisXV * Psychological
Cisgender Transgender

45
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What is the invisible knapsack?

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“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.”

  • Peggy mcintosh
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What is Intercultural Communication?

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Avowed identity
Ascribed identity
Difference matters
Convergence
Context

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