Shaoyi Wang Journal #2 MEDST300W Prof. Herzog Note on Readings According to Annabelle Sreberny - Mohammadi’s essay, the mass communication has three different forms, which are oral communication, written communication and electronic communication. Personally, I suppose any one of these three forms can not replace the other two to be the only communication form of human being, although electronic communication had already became the most effective form in the world and the social history. The electronic communication exposes the information out to the universal, but not just simply delivers them or transfer them from one place to another. Therefore, its ability of sharing the information is definitely way over the competition. However, it does not necessarily means that oral communication and written communication will loose their attraction to the mass communication system. Compare to the digital communication system, written communication limits the speed of transferring and the possibility of transferring the blemished information. Moreover, it might be much more controllable of itself and the mass community. Unlike the digital system, written communication does not leave too much space for the variety arguments of worldwide. Therefore it has more chances to strongly build up its own unique system to against the opposite and secure its existence. Oral communication are considered as the most long-lasting communication form, although it’s not the very first one (I suppose the cave painting is), and it’s also the most common form that people will use in daily life. Along the history, oral communication does carried pretty much duties of recording and transferring cultural products and social information from generation to generation. There’s no way to remove or ignore any one of these three communication forms in our society.
Shaoyi Wang Journal #1 MEDST300W Prof. Herzog Note on the concept of CULTURE According to the reading and the lecture, the definition of culture refers to both of the ideological product and the process of ideology. Therefore, I consider culture as A SYSTEM OF IDEOLOGY. Culture is represented in our daily life. It 's not only what we think, but also how we behave. Normally, when people mention "CULTURE", it reminds them mostly the ideological behave, such as religion or custom. However, as mentioned in the readings, even how people treat their teeth is concerned with their culture. In some western countries, keeping teeth under the pillows would earn children some changes from the teeth fairy, but in my native country, keeping wasted teeth would cause the pain of children's growing teeth. Is it funny and unexplainable? Culture does not exist independently. It lives on the historical and social environment. If we assume culture works like other process, and it has to grow like others too. Culture does not come from nowhere and effect on nothing. It has its significant reason-and-result. When we talk about culture, we are actually studying the EVOLUATION of culture, too. History and society leave significant marks all over our culture, just like our father and mother outline us before we even reach the world. However, unlike the children, culture will effect on its source back when it becomes a individual system. Therefore, history, society and culture are actually in a "recycle" progress. Culture is a matter of mass, a matter of information and a matter of communication. It's both of the product and the process of gathering around the information from the mass and transferring them. Information plays a big part in culture, because almost every single part of culture contains or passes some types of information. In a word, people built culture, and it grows by itself, too.
Journal #2
MEDST300W
Prof. Herzog
Note on Readings
According to Annabelle Sreberny - Mohammadi’s essay, the mass communication has three different forms, which are oral communication, written communication and electronic communication.
Personally, I suppose any one of these three forms can not replace the other two to be the only communication form of human being, although electronic communication had already became the most effective form in the world and the social history. The electronic communication exposes the information out to the universal, but not just simply delivers them or transfer them from one place to another. Therefore, its ability of sharing the information is definitely way over the competition. However, it does not necessarily means that oral communication and written communication will loose their attraction to the mass communication system. Compare to the digital communication system, written communication limits the speed of transferring and the possibility of transferring the blemished information. Moreover, it might be much more controllable of itself and the mass community. Unlike the digital system, written communication does not leave too much space for the variety arguments of worldwide. Therefore it has more chances to strongly build up its own unique system to against the opposite and secure its existence.
Oral communication are considered as the most long-lasting communication form, although it’s not the very first one (I suppose the cave painting is), and it’s also the most common form that people will use in daily life. Along the history, oral communication does carried pretty much duties of recording and transferring cultural products and social information from generation to generation.
There’s no way to remove or ignore any one of these three communication forms in our society.
Shaoyi Wang
Journal #1
MEDST300W
Prof. Herzog
Note on the concept of CULTURE
According to the reading and the lecture, the definition of culture refers to both of the ideological product and the process of ideology. Therefore, I consider culture as A SYSTEM OF IDEOLOGY.
Culture is represented in our daily life. It 's not only what we think, but also how we behave. Normally, when people mention "CULTURE", it reminds them mostly the ideological behave, such as religion or custom. However, as mentioned in the readings, even how people treat their teeth is concerned with their culture. In some western countries, keeping teeth under the pillows would earn children some changes from the teeth fairy, but in my native country, keeping wasted teeth would cause the pain of children's growing teeth. Is it funny and unexplainable?
Culture does not exist independently. It lives on the historical and social environment. If we assume culture works like other process, and it has to grow like others too. Culture does not come from nowhere and effect on nothing. It has its significant reason-and-result. When we talk about culture, we are actually studying the EVOLUATION of culture, too. History and society leave significant marks all over our culture, just like our father and mother outline us before we even reach the world. However, unlike the children, culture will effect on its source back when it becomes a individual system. Therefore, history, society and culture are actually in a "recycle" progress.
Culture is a matter of mass, a matter of information and a matter of communication. It's both of the product and the process of gathering around the information from the mass and transferring them. Information plays a big part in culture, because almost every single part of culture contains or passes some types of information.
In a word, people built culture, and it grows by itself, too.