JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Computer-Mediated Communication, Clickbait, Tmz

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1001
• Professor: Christopher Dornan

Document Summary

By the same token, critics of journalism argue that the news media have never lived up to this promise. The media are poor advocates of democracy, at best. They titillate rather than educate; the information they peddle is trivial and sensationalistic; they affirm rather than challenge entrenched power structures; they cheapen and frustrate democratic discourse. With the exception of journalism practiced by public institutions such as the. Cbc and the bbc, journalism in the west has always been a business. Expenditures are made only in the service of maximizing profit, and this is as true of the globe and mail as it is of tmz. com. Socially networked, computer-mediated communication is rewriting the present right before our eyes. Society"s chronicle of itself, a running record of its activities, a means by which a society inform itself. An ongoing documentation of social affairs, conducted in public for the benefit of the public.