
John Durham Peters' "Speaking into the Air"
Theory & Philosophy
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The Importance of Dialog in Communication
Peter's attributes to Socrates, this kind of title of the first thinker of communication. Peter's identifies that there was an appreciation of dialogue because that's like an immediate presence between two people in the ideal form. Jesus for Peter's appreciates dissemination. That's because Jesus believed himself to have a kind of truth or, you know, to embody a sort of truth and it was his responsibility to spread among the masses. So we see with this first chapter, a very strong distinction between two forms of communication that set the tone for what the rest of the book will do.
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