Communication Theory Media, Technology and Society
by an over-powering desire for self-presence, the here and the now. This usually involves a quest for lost origins – a master wo ...
is the relationship not between signifier and signified but between systems of signifiers which determines the kinds of thought ...
restricted sense of the transmission of meaning. Conversely, it is within the general field of writing thus defined that the eff ...
which Derrida also calls a ‘mark’), the side in which the mark fails to reproduce a signified content. The ability of a mark to ...
Transcendentally, totalization and self-presence are both impossible, then, because all contexts are inhabited by radical alteri ...
community. The ‘network society’ is marked not by a change in semiolinguistic extension (an ability to extend meaning) which wor ...
Experiencing mediums the logocentric way The logocentric metaphysic of communication is one that permeates most of the Western e ...
medium for transporting sense. Such a medium is conceived as having authors who are autonomous, unified meaning-creators, who mu ...
and then examine more and more complex forms of mediation that alter this building block. Transmission accounts do not ignore th ...
Part of the reason why ritual views have become popular is that cyberspace is so much more visibly a medium than is broadcast. B ...
A ritual view of communication will focus on a different range of problems in examining a newspaper less as sending or gaining i ...
Types of interaction As has been suggested, the metaphoric framework of logocentrism is one which privileges interaction-as-even ...
These basic differences between kinds of extended media, and the fact that they typically extend some aspects of phonocentric co ...
form of interaction, according to Thompson, because it ‘links people’ together (84). As per the summary of Thompson in Table 5.2 ...
that whilst these interactive forms differ, they have in common the fact that they are bothviewed as a mediation of face-to-face ...
meaning of the message will be affected by a range of factors that come to mediate its successful transmission. However, intenti ...
can only be upheld in an instrumental model of communication. In ritual views, however, there is no separation; the medium isthe ...
itself is (at least partially) an effect of a medium. In this view there are no pre-given subjects with an experience of the rea ...
complains that, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the idea that the self is decentred and made up of multiple identities was a mar ...
Medium theory insists on the need to look first at the architecture of each medium, to assess the ‘subject position’ of actors w ...
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