Remodelling Communication - From Wwii to the Www

Providing a dynamic, forward-looking reorientation towards a new universe of reference, Remodelling Communication makes a significant, productive contribution to communication theory.

List of contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Regaining Weaver and Shannon

2 Encoding and Decoding Stuart Hall

3 Roman Jakobson and the Primacy of the Poetic

4 All Models are Simulations: Jean Baudrillard's Critique of Communication

5 Phatic (Dys)functions

6 Umberto Eco and Guerrilla Decoding

7 From General Modelling to Metamodelling

Conclusion

Notes

Index

About the author

By Gary Genosko

Summary

Providing a dynamic, forward-looking reorientation towards a new universe of reference, Remodelling Communication makes a significant, productive contribution to communication theory.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Genosko
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2013
• EAN: 9781442615830
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1583-0
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication; Toronto Studies in Semiotics a; Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication; Toronto Studies in Semiotics a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries