SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Public Sphere, New Media, State Capitalism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Tonio Sadik

Document Summary

Capital: criticism about the extent to which media plays a role in informing people and ends up taking over the public sphere. These are all fundamental questions about society and how we strive toward certain things. Media should inform people but instead it distracts them. The purpose habermas thought the media should fulfill are the following: 2. not others, pattern to how things are presented. It"s not possible to say something that is completely different from what we are used to hearing and back it up with the necessary facts in the format/structure available. It has to make sense within the first 3 minutes to keep our attention b. Impartiality - news is presented to appear impartial which has led to particular. 2. narrative techniques that constrain the information the way that it is presented. Tendency for journalists to use description as a preferred method of explaining a situation rather than analysis.