CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: National Report, Virtual Community, Clickbait
21 Nov 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The importance of communications as a field of research and analysis. Committee for national morale (usa) - promoted democratic personalities. Media environment that allows for individual decisions - identity + unity. Power to create democratic personalities (autonomous, committed to. Propaganda leaves no room for free thought. Conceptual foundation of the internet - liberating, virtual community. Social media - links people all over the world. Algorithms create clusters of people similar to you. Social media has the power to influence other"s opinions. Eg. twitter has become popular with politicians. People get news from twitter, facebook etc, so why do news outlets etc still exist. New technologies don"t replace old ones - they layer onto them. Social and commercial medias are already connected. Social media provides a platform for fake news. People can no longer distinguish fake from real (especially youth) Idea that internet is a neutral platform for news is a fantasy.
