Week 1 - Intro

Question 1

What is the dualism of communication?

Answer 1

It is a bridge and a chasm. It can separate people or bring them together.

Question 2

What are the 5 A’s of mass society theory?

Answer 2

Alienation, anomie, anonymity, apathy and atomization.

Question 3

Key term: Historicity

Answer 3

Historical actuality (how something developed through history)

Question 4

Key term: Solipsism

Answer 4

A theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing.

Question 5

Key term: Telepathy

Answer 5

Communication from one mind to another by extrasensory means

Question 6

Key term: Angelological

Answer 6

The theological doctrine of angels and its study

Question 7

What are the 3 historical meanings of “communication”

Answer 7

imparting, transfer/transmission, and exchange

Question 8

Visions of media from 1920s

Answer 8

1. communication as the management of mass opinion (post ww1 ear, concern about propaganda). eg. statues,
2. semantic dissonance (no agreement on meaning of words/meaning)
3. vain sallies from the citadel of the self (desire to connect always fails)

Question 9

Heidegger

Answer 9

to be human is to be social, communication is about opening ourselves to the world, not about info exchange.

Question 10

John Deney

Answer 10

concerned of loss of face-to-face communication

Question 11

Broadcast Hill

Answer 11

tower, mass communication, everyone has access to signal, radio and tv on tower, 1 to many signal

Question 12

Angels relation to communication

Answer 12

intermediaries between god and humans (devine form of communication)