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Tag Archives: Com Theory
Final Com Theory Reads
As per seminar participants’ requests, we are going to talk a bit about the intersection of Com Theory and Policy. There are a lot of ways we could approach this — talking about agent and interaction modeling, about ideas surrounding the global civil society, more in the direction of Pool or of Deutsch — but [...]
Diffusion, individuality, and Hitpredictor
We chatted in the Com Theory course about the intersection between Horkheimer and Adorno’s “Culture Industry” and the ideas surrounding diffusion. The theme I’ve been pushing all semester has been where human agency exists and where it is constrained. I think that this is the most interesting and important question that communication has to answer, [...]
Auto-archeology, Simmel & me
So, this is a bit embarrassing, but since I am making students in my com theory seminar and my systems seminar write reaction papers, I figure it is only fair for them to see what I wrote as a masters student. I was searching my hard drive for something related to the class, and ended [...]
Disaggregating and Course Readings
We are coming into the home stretch now for the Com Theory course. This semester I abandoned earlier, more formal reading schedules to provide more flexibility. Won’t do that again, I don’t think. While having a reading schedule and feeling “behind” seemed to produce anxiety for the students, this way of deciding on the fly [...]
Com Theory: The Phantom Edit
OK, you should all have received some general comments (and a grade) from me via email. You will note that I have not included the sort of red pages that you may be used to: that is, there are no close edits. That’s because we will all be taking care of that together. I encourage [...]
ID est
We have been talking about evolution a bit in the Communication Theory class, largely in the context of Axelrod and social simulation. Ryan took exception to an introduction to one of the chapters in the Kennedy book that is fairly dismissive of “creation scientists,” calling the treatment “borderline repulsive.” Kennedy writes Incredibly, as the second [...]
Dogears and classroom ROI