Carey, J. (n.d.). CHAPTER 1 A
Cultural Approach to Communication. Retrieved May 11, 2014, from http://www3.niu.edu/acad/gunkel/coms465/carey.html
Dewey on
Communication:
- Experience
and Nature: Of all things communication is the most wonderful.
- Society
exists not only by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to
exist in transmission, in communication.
Author
considers the quotes:
- Dewey new
there were two understandings for communication.
Transmission:
- Dominates
modern discourse.
- Giving
information to others.
- The desire
to increase the sped and effect of messages.
- Started
with migration to the new world.
o Transmission
and expansion of the word of god.
- Fell into
the realm of science.
Became the
modification of matter and transmission of thought.
Ritual
view of communication:
- Linked to
sharing, participation, possession of common faith.
o The
representation of shared beliefs.
o Drawing
together of people in fellowship.
o Construction
and maintenance of an ordered, meaningful cultural world that can serve as
control and container for human actions. (controlling human experience.)
Ritual
view of communication speaks to culture.
- Americans
use culture to define others and groups.
o But they
don’t look at culture as applied to them,
o Because of
individuality.
Newspapers
act as ritual communication.
- The
individual is involved and reading the stories as others.
- It is a
presentations of reality that gives form and order.
News:
-
A
cultural form that attracts “hunger for the experience.”
-
Created
by the middle class and reflects styles.
o
Not
universal tastes.
-
It
survives as long as the class that sponsors it, wants it.
-
It
does not portray information, but drama.
o
The
opposing forces in the world.
Dewey: Communication is the most wonderful because
it is the basis of human fellowship.
-
It
produces social bonds.
-
Shared
culture demands consensus by communication.
Part II
-
Communication
is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired and
transferred.
o
The
process of communication are so ordinary, it is hard for us to give them
attention.
Art – Making the
phenomena strange.
-
Things
become so familiar we no longer see them.
Dewey:
-
Knowledge
grows when things become problematic.
-
Information
gaps are a call to action.
-
Sometimes
we can only see the information gaps when we remove the mundane.
There is reality
and then, after fact, an account of it.
-There is a
world of objects, and there is language to describe it.
Reality is produced
by communication, by the use of words.
-
Our
brains literally create our own world.
o
“History
of order” the forms in which people have endowed significance., order and
meaning by their own intellectual processes.
Displacement –
The ability to talk about something thought its not there.
A finite set of
symbols, or phenomena, can produce an infinite set of sentences.
Thought is
generally considered private in “in the head.”
-
The
author suggests its public because it is based on cultural symbols and notions.
o
We
have the ability to form multiple scenarios and run them forward to see what
might work best.
o
We
produce our world and then we live it.
§
The
magic of self-deception.
§
We
also have to maintain our world.
§
Reality
breaks down and it must be repaired.
To study
communication is to examine the social process of where symbolic forms are
created.
Models, any
models, represent what the process is, but they also produce the behavior they
describe.
Problems
associated with communicators are linked to problems in community and culture.
Our lives are
shaped by our perceptions of experience.
Interest in
Communicator derives from arrangement of our models of communication and
communication.
-
Which
derives from transmission theory which is based in power/anxiety models.
-
That
is why we tend to look at communication as a network of power, administration,
decision, control – A political order.
However, life
consists of:
-
Aesthetic
experience
-
Religious
ideals
-
Personal
Values and Notions.
-
These
are ritualistic views and notions.
No comments:
Post a Comment