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MegaSardine2206 1. Choose one direct quotation, one or two sentences. 2. Response…Image transcription textWhen I decided some years ago to read seriously the literature ofcommunica— tions, a wise man suggested I begin with JohnDewey. It was advice I have never regretted accepting…. Show more… Show moreImage transcription textNisbet’s acid remark that if you need sociologists to inform youwhether or not you have a ruling class, you surely don’t. But if thistransparent interpretation is rejected, are there any g… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textbetween the bindings of a book, still had to be distributed, if theywere to have their desired effect, by rapid transportation. Thetelegraph ended the identity but did not destroy the m… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textthe invention was not to spread the price of pork but to ask thequestion ‘What Hath God Wrought?” ‘3 (Miller, 1965: 52).This new technology entered Amer— ican discussions … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textinvoked. And we need not be reminded of the regularity withwhich improved communication is invoked by an army ofteachers, preachers, and columnists as the talisman of … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textwell as our common, public understandings. There is an irony inthis. We have not explored the ritual view of communicationbecause the concept of culture is such a weak and eva… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textI8 Communication as Culture The power of Dewey’s work derivesfrom his working over these counter— poised views ofcommunication. Communication is “the most wonderf… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textfound by going back to the work of Weber, Durkheim, deTocqueville, and Huizinga, as well as by utilizing contemporariessuch as Kenneth Burke, Hugh Duncan, Adolph Portma… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textcommonplace activity. Dewey knew that knowledge mosteffectively grew at the point when things became problematic,when we experience an “informa— tion gap” between … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textWhatever reality might be on the mind of Bishop Berkeley’s God,whatever it might be for other animals, it is for us a vastproduction, a staged creation— something humanly pr… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textby producing a poetic or musical description. As in the song thatgoes, in part, “first you turn it to the left, then you turn it to theright,” a space can be mapped by a stream of poetic sp… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textof building maps of environments. Thought involves constructinga model of an environment and then running the model fasterthan the environment to see if nature can be coerced t… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textproductions are incipiently problematic and for whom realitymust be regener— ated and made authoritative. Reality must berepaired for it consistently breaks down: people get lo… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textways, but these several models have different ethical implicationsfor they produce different forms of social relations. Let us facethis dilemma directly. There is nothing in our genes tha… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textRaymond Williams, whose analysis I shall follow in conclusion,speaks to the point: Communication begins in the struggle tolearn and to describe. To start this process in our mind… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textment in our models of communication and community. Thisderangement derives, in turn, from an obsessive commitment to atransmission view of communication and the derivativ… Show more… Show more1. Choose one direct quotation, one or two sentences.2. Response to the quotation and provide the reason.3. Potential criticism of that response.4. Finally, the response to the potential criticism you have identified.Arts & HumanitiesEnglish