COMM 1100U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: False Consciousness, Economic System
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Ideology: a systematic body of concepts, especially about human life or culture, a system of ideas an ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. If we give people their information they can break out of their false consciousness. Coopers explanation about how information or things are being interpreted, are being taken and twisted into another way. He feels that he needs more evidence than needed to prove to people on what really had happened. This is a reminder of how challenging it could be to change other peoples worlds views, and ideologies. Many of the folks that believed in the repurposed message, people believe it was fake news. Even after this rebuttal, people still don"t believe. People in the mass media promote fake news in a way to promote a world view. Main defintion: a system of meaning that helps define and. Explain the world and that makes value judgments about the.