SOCIOL 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Radio League, Nbc, Graham Spry
30 Mar 2016
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Include newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, sound recordings, radio, and television: issues in social history of old media. Keep in mind some issues such as: Technology: it"s social thus social context is paramount (emerging in social context) and shapes technology and use of media technologies, capitalist need for communication/control/ profit. Critical political economy: conflicts in dialectic that exists between private companies and oppositional groups. The state: how the state plays a role in dealing with these conflicts, neo-marxists argue that state serves interests of capitalist class and makes concessions to less powerful groups. The social history of radio broadcasting in canada: the british and american contexts. Britain was public control under the state as the bbc (british broadcasting corporation) Us broadcasting was under private control, so many private companies became established such as nbc (national broadcasting company: the canadian context. Began with marconi wireless telegraph company of.
