CMNS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Post-Fordism, Propaganda Model, Mass Society

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 240
• Professor: Enda Brophy

Document Summary

Far from being an exceptional element int he democratic process, propaganda is a constitutive aspect of democracy in the mass society frank webster and kevin robbins. The propaganda model does not imply a conspiracy: herman describes it as a decentralized and non-conspiratorial market system of control and processing . From fordism to post fordism: a holastic and historical approach. Political economy is holistic (as mosco would say, it is interested in social totality ) and historical approach. It uses media as part of a broader context. Analysis of this historical transformation will set the stage fro second half of the semester. The regulation school refers to a group of political economists that emerged in the 1970s in france developed an in uential way of thinking about capitalist societies they offer a holistic and historical analysis of 20th century capitalist societies. Jdp increasing / decreasing + commodi cation fundamental imperatives of any form and period of capitalism.