COMS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Market Failure, Transmedia Storytelling, Iheartmedia

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 230
• Professor: Cayley Sorochan

Document Summary

Make sure name of the author and your name is at the top of your critical response. Due date for last week"s critical response is this thursday. Website where every year they release their top 25 a list of news stories that were buried in the media. They were stories that made it through the media gates but they didn"t make it high. This [website] is a good example of the watchdog function. What this information this organization is watching isn"t big corporations but the media itself (what the media"s placing high on the agenda vs. what they"re placing low) Democratic norms that we expect from the media: [continuation from last class] Objectivity refers to the norm that the media should remain neutral and non-partisan. Fairness the media should represent its subjects fairly (politics of representation how are people represented in the media, how are people grouped and how are these groupings related to stereotypes)