sophomore slump or comeback of the year - lecture notes
well it’s that time of the week again although not really because i might be posting this a little late but it’s now time for the post of lecture notes. the notes you are about to read were taken from the new communications technology lecture two!!!! and they go a little something like this…………………..
the 20th century saw the development of mass society and an explosion of broadcast media forms (newspapers, cinema, radio and tv) where messages where distrusted from controlled sources to audiences around the world. there are three main forms of studies:
Communication Studies
Media Studies
Cultural Studies
at the same time of these studies, job focused disciplines emerged
· Journalism
· Publix Relations
· Advertising
· Marketing
· Design
the rise of computers and other new communication technologies have spawned new area of investigation:
New Media Studies
Cyber Studies
Internet Studies
Cyberculture Studies
Web Studies
1900 SEMIOTICS- FERNINAND DE SAUSSURE
studies the role of signs as a part of social life, structuralist signs are signifier and signified .
detonations (literal account)- connotation (cultural association)
semantics; the relationship of signs to what they stand for
syntactics (or syntax): the formal or structural relationship between signs
pragmatics: the relation of signs to interpreters
COMMUNICATION STUDIES (USA)
1920s- Ballet (Inoculation) Theory = Maximum Effects
1930s- Application of Statistical Method
1940s- Minimum Effects
1950s- Looking for effects- connections to psychology
1960s- Marshall McLuhan
1970s- Mixed Effects
1980s- Return Maximum Effects
MEDIA STUDIES (UK)
Raymond Williams
Stanley Cohen- Moral Panics
Glasgow School
Stuart Hall- Birmingham School
Active Audiences
CULTURAL STUDIES (EUROPE)
1930s- Walter Benjamin
1940s- Frankfurt School
1950s- Situationsists- Society of the Spectacle
1960s- Habermas
1970s- Louis Althusser
1980s- Baudrillard – Simulacra
1990s- Fraser – Subaltern Counterpublics
we also watched a french new wave cinema film titled ‘La Jetee’. it was shot completely of black and white photographs which i found interesting. the film also contained no dialogue; only narration. upon doing some further research on ‘La Jetee’ i discovered these interesting facts-
~ The stills were taken with a Pentax 24x36 and the motion-picture segment was shot with a 35mm Arriflex
~ In French, "jetée" is derived the feminine past participle of the verb jeter, which means "to throw". Hence, the title has another meaning, as the main character is described as being "thrown" through time. The title is also a near-homophone of "there I was"
~ Terry Gilliam's 1995 Twelve Monkeys, an Americanized remake of La Jetée, helped the introduction of this '60s cult film to a broader audience. In Gilliam's version, however, the plot was changed significantly.
well that is this weeks lecture notes blogs…..until the next blog……..
carrisa.
