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“Communication is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed… One of the major problems one encounters in talking about communication is that the noun refers to the most common, mundane human experience” (Carey, 1988: 23-24). Discuss in relation to a process of communication that you think is social and culturally significant.
In answering the question you will need to:
• Explain what James Carey and, more broadly, a cultural approach to communication means when it says that communication is a ‘symbolic process’.
• Outline what Carey and other communication scholars mean when they say that communication is the ‘most common, mundane human experience’.
• Select a communication practice/process and outline the state of research within communication studies regarding that communication practice/process.
• Demonstrate how Carey’s notion that, in communication, ‘reality is produced, maintained, repaired and transformed’ could be said to apply to the case study you have chosen.
• Outline also whether you think there are limits to Carey’s formulation, especially ones highlighted by your case study (i.e., based on your case study research, do you think that communication is something other than what Carey and the cultural approach to communication are suggesting).
Hints for researching and writing your essay:
• Re-read the Carey excerpt in your Topic Reader and familiarize yourself with what is meant by a cultural approach to communication.
• Select a case study in communication media (e.g., using mobile phones, television viewing, listening to music, or playing computer games, etc).
• Identify 8 articles or books that you will use to research the chosen case study.
• You should structure your essay and argument, so that the theoretical discussion and the case study are both done well but also feel integrated.
• Make sure you comply with all the stylistic features associated with a university-level essay such as a providing an introduction and conclusion, full referencing and undertaking spelling and grammar checks.
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