CMNS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Canadian Radio League, Dominate, Raymond Williams
16 Oct 2016
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Lecture recap the role of mass media within it. We saw how the theory changed over time. We also saw hoe it would become a staple of the research carried out by. Raymond williams offers us a helpful way to think about social change. From the 1600s on, the monarchy and the church begin to be challenged. In any historical period, certain institutions, cultures and forms of social organization are either dominant, emergent, or residual. (urbanization, industrialization liberal pluralism, what is dominate, social change all the time by (cid:524) Today"s liberal-democratic notion- states develop out of these revolutions. Liberalism maintains importance of equal rights, individual freedom, and by another force- a rising merchant class. (revolution begin) private property. Mass communication becomes central to building (and expanding) these news liberal states. As a result, a new way of thinking about the role of mass media in a democracy emerges: The public sphere: (cid:498)a domain in our social life(cid:499)
