SOC 202 Lecture : New Media & Society
23 Jan 2012
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Section 2: new media & society how does mainstream news work? y media is vital, able to infiltrate different y news is inescapable, influential, ideological topics. ideological: laissez faire, invisible, common sense, we tend to watch without any thought into where it came from y two schools of thought into how media is governed: left wing politics. liberal, open to different ways of doing things, separation of church and state, tend to favour higher taxes for things such as universal healthcare, which is in favour of the people. regard media as engaging in propaganda and censorship, objectionable ideology: right wing politics. conservative, privatization, rigid control does not recognize the objectionable ideologies recognized by left wing media, sees media as being contributor to fractured morality. Degrassi not functional, addresses rape, gay, disabilities which is confrontational; margin of understanding between you (the reader) and the producer y ex.
