MSTU4016 08/Course Glossary

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Let's develop a glossary of key terms for the course. To enter a term, put a semicolon on a new line in front of the term, then start a new line with a colon and your comments on the meaning and significance of the term -- e. g.

;Keyword
:Your discussion of the Keyword . . .

Keyword

A wonderful book, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams (Revised ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), provides excellent examples of the sort of discussion we might try to develop for essential terms as we go along.

Keywords in the History of Communication

Globalization

Many different things to many different people. . . .

Inevitability

Technological determinism. . . .

Control

Who claims it and who exercises it? Is it dependable?