COMS 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Death Of Alan Kurdi

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 3400
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Media plays a role in controversy because they make things appear. Or as silverstone says that media is a space of appearance . Media leaks out into the public and become a source for judgment. Things become controversial because they come from tension or differing views regarding responsibilities and rights. These are also reasons why you trust people. A collective account of an event heard/seen in society. A process in which we learn things about the world that we cannot access. The news is a product of an elaborate series of decision making. What we know as news is an elaborate series of decision making (what to use, how to frame it, what words to use, etc. These decisions are made mainly by media companies and journalists. Different kinds of professions have different kinds of ethics and mandates. Cbc is gov"t owned, ctv is private owned.