CMNS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frankfurt School, Tabloid Journalism, Walter Benjamin

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 240
• Professor: Enda Brophy

Document Summary

Lecture 3 (jan. 18: 17th century, two contending perspectives within it (economy & communication, pec has traditionally looked at the structure of media industries, how they work and what role they serve. > test drive: pe of communication has traditionally focused on media ownership and control. Now: communication is increasingly ubiquitous, we are arguably living in a world of communicative, social inequality has never been so great. Videocracy (erik : the role of ideology, concentration of media, audience manipulation. > cultural imperialism: schiller (1971) the internationally active corporation is not an altogether new phenomenon but its extensive involvement in overseas communication is relatively recent , us cultural text supported the sale of american products and industries. > the decline of cultural imperialism: theory of cultural imperialism has increasingly been questioned in recent decades, resistance to us culture around the world, donald duck : a manual for american decolonisation by ariel dorfman & armand.