Episodes tagged with: communications and technology

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User Episode ImageReview of the major traditions in communication theory. Includes the world-wide release of "502's for Buckaroos," written by Geo Takach, and featuring MACTDaddy, N. Diddy, Snoop Christie, Ice P...

2 minutes, 47 seconds
Published: 4/28/2008


User Episode ImageIntroduces the metatheory as a means of comparing communication theories. Elements of the metatheory include scope, appropriateness, heuristic value, validity, parsimony, and openness.

6 minutes, 25 seconds
Published: 4/27/2008


User Episode ImageProvides an overview of the seven communication traditions. The traditions reveal the vastness of communications as an area of study.


7 minutes, 59 seconds
Published: 4/11/2008


User Episode ImageConsiders three national approaches to knowledge about communications and technology. Includes an invitation to listeners to respond to the podcast series.

9 minutes, 55 seconds
Published: 11/21/2007


User Episode ImageSome thoughts on the interpretation and use of groupware and social software. Includes a discussion of the invisible web.


7 minutes, 29 seconds
Published: 11/13/2007


User Episode ImageFirst of two podcasts on the contributions of Marshall McLuhan to our understanding of the changes introduced into the social world by new technologies. Includes a description of how McLuhan’s ...

5 minutes, 59 seconds
Published: 10/29/2007


User Episode ImageDiscusses the means by which social software brings together demand and production in a market. Includes a comment on James Beniger's concept of the "soft" control of society through technology...

10 minutes, 12 seconds
Published: 10/22/2007


User Episode ImageThoughts about image technologies and their capacity to help shape social identity. Includes a description of how the abundance of images on the Internet helps to support propaganda.

8 minutes, 14 seconds
Published: 10/15/2007


User Episode ImageConsiders how radio broadcasting has been used historically to develop regional social identities. Includes a description of the Internet as an effect of the launch in 1957 of the Russian satel...

7 minutes, 40 seconds
Published: 10/9/2007


User Episode ImageExplains the invention of the telephone in relation to the creation of a new market, using historical examples involving the early telephone companies and the contemporary example of local dere...

7 minutes, 59 seconds
Published: 9/27/2007


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