COMS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Citizen Journalism, Whistleblower, Alternative Media

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

Document Summary

Making a communication system that opens up more democratic capabilities. Distributed architecture with decreased cost of publication equals several orders of magnitude. Technology changes who we are and how we imagine ourselves as political and social beings. Emerging media transforms our political subjectivity and how we experience our interactions with other people. This could mean that we both do things differently and we do different things when we have the potential to communicate our daily lives on extensive levels. Decline in the gatekeeping power of the emerging media power. Mass media is de@ined by scarcity of communication powers and the need for professionals to manage this scarcity. There has been a transformation in how gatekeeping occurs. Gatekeepers have not disappeared but they have changed. Online responses to these political issues are important because the speed of connectivity and the various characteristics enabled a kind of political impact that moved more quickly than law based or regulatory avenues of impact.