CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Birds Eye View, Propaganda Model, Space Form

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

Process through people make collective decisions about the type of society we want to live in. Media"s role: inform people serve as a basis for discussion and debate of today"s issues provides info reflects other debates going on in society. 1787 - news media was first allowed to be in parliament to record and report events. Need certain products to succeed convince us that this is the norm sell us other lifestyles. Harold innis and marshall mcluhan interest in social change and environment rise and fall between civilization and the media they use? social history of communication. Mm: psychological effect of media and human behaviour, influenced by innis central focus of social history is media. Innis and empire: based on rules/monarchy reflect the cultures of the time formation of burocracy writing is a reminder hear things without thinking about it. Time bias vs space bias (look at slide)