MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Responsibility, Mass Society, Political Philosophy
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Week 4 september 28 th , 2016. Chapter 3: media: history and the canadian context. Renaissance: a cultural movement between the 14th and 17th centuries in western europe that highlighted a return to classical forms of learning and knowledge. Rediscovery and revival of learning and literature from antiquity. Helped reorient social perspectives concerning the place of human kind and nature in the cosmic order: other movements and conceptual developments that paved the way for modern forms of mass media: Humanism: a broad philosophy that celebrated human form and an empirical understanding of the world people might come to view the world through individual observation and experience rather than religious texts and emissaries of the church. Counter-reformation: a conservative backlash in the 16th and 17th that re-established monarchical absolutism in church and state. Controls placed on printing to limit the dissemination of humanist ideas.
