COMM 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Nancy Fraser, Participatory Democracy, Participatory Culture

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2102
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Spread truth or spread lies or spy on people. A vote in election is a contribution/expression in the way in which we would like to contribute to that conversation. Relationship between communication and practices how you do something says something. How a professional sports team says something: what"s happened to concussions. How we chose to teach something teaches us about the values of how we do something. Then what you can say is the way we participate says something about our values or the values that we hold. Nancy fraser- sure the idea of a public sphere fails to account for other public spheres apart from the liberal sphere. Job of media is to check on the power to make sure that everything is being done in a responsible and proper way. Increasing role and value paid to market research, public opinion polling and. Idea that audiences are active and not passive becomes dominant motif to characterize mass media reception.