Introduction to Communication Science week 6: 6.1 Introduction Question & Answers

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1. not in the Coursera site:

Transcript of all Week 6 videos: https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/commscience/transcripts%2FTranscript_Week_6%20Coursera.pdf

This lecture in .webm: http://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/commscience/recoded_videos%2F6.1.68449e43f7d6de6b28736bc08e010570.webm

2. In the Coursera site, but apparently unaffected by the login block, for this lecture:

Subtitle text: https://class.coursera.org/commscience-001/lecture/subtitles?q=91_en&format=txt
Video mp4: https://class.coursera.org/commscience-001/lecture/download.mp4?lecture_id=91

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Week 6 description:
Student questions and debate
This week I will be discussing student questions from the forum and subjects that we did not have time for during the lectures, such as metaphors. I will also tell you a bit about the upcoming exam.

Welcome to our last week before the exam. I
hope you are up to speed with everything.

If not, take the time to go over the lectures you
missed

and read the text files we made available on our
platform.

This is week 6 of our course

and as you know, we already covered everything we set out to do in the previous weeks,

discussing in a rapid pace some basic models
and concepts, the history of our field,

the linear, construction/signification and cultural
approaches to communication.

This week is an unscripted week that I want to
use to go over some student questions.

I received approximately 200 questions to cover
this or that item.

Some questions were posted on our forum,
some came through Facebook or Twitter,

even some per email, even though I hid my email address in the university database,

you were quite adept in finding me.

No worries, all suggestions were welcome, and I
wish I could cover them all,

but as every week, we only have eight short
lectures,

so I made a selection based on how many times a topic was requested

and how well it fitted with our course goals.

One other important thing.

I will add questions to the exam about the topics
that I cover this week.

So in that aspect, this week is no different than
others.

We only had a few days to prepare so we have
kept things basic this week.

You will be seeing me some more than usual
and we have kept the visuals simple,

but hopefully as effective and entertaining as
before. I hope you enjoy.

Oh, and let us know what you think of this
week’s more lean approach.

We are learning just like you!