COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Treasure Trove, Astral Media, Bell Media
2 Nov 2015
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Little reliable data: highly politicized, gather data is hard. Right (fox: not just a cdn issue; uk, aus, venezuela etc, snowdon pointed out that social media and any other platform are treasure troves of information for gov. How not to study media concentration: michael moore 5 men controlling the media , there are no individual owners as stocks/shareholders, there are some moguls: murdoch etc. Thierer: golden age : bright outlook as time goes on. Three stooges of media concentration debate: denounce evil, media concentration is getting worse, nothing to see here, move along, fragmented media, middle ground huggers, evidence is mixed and inconclusive. A 4th thought: shift from industrial to multimedia, media ecology is being reconstituted, disconnect between editorial opinion and people interested in elections. Two tiered media system : more concentration = easier regulation. Why: map and analyze trends, give students training in analysis, create a body of evidence, produce state of the network media economy in.
