Sunday, October 9, 2016

Communications

Definition:

an exchange of information, news, or expression. In regards to DeLuca and Peeples communications 
is a reference to mass communications, the media, new and old.

Example from text:


Both Derrida and Peters offer dissemination as the primordial form of communication, the first turn before dialogue. Their point, an insight highlighted in an age of mass communication, is that communication/transmission/reception/meaning/understanding/communion may never happen, “that a letter can always not arrive at its destination, and therefore it never arrives. And this is really how it is, it is not a misfortune, that’s life, living life”

Context:

DeLuca and Peeples mention communication several times in "From Public Sphere to Public Screen" each is a comment on the discussion of the effectiveness of mass and new media in delivering information and as a tool to use in the public sphere. "Communication as characterized by dissemination is the endless proliferation and scattering of emissions without the guarantee of productive exchanges. Peters cites the parables of Jesus as the paradigmatic example of dissemination in order to suggest that dissemination offers a model of communication that is more democratic, open, public, equitable, receiver-oriented, and in tune with humanitys multiple communication practices" 

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