CMN2168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Slacker, Becky Mode, Cnn Philippines Newsroom
6 Oct 2017
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Lecture 4: global communication and fragmentation of public sphere. Audiences: media consumers are traditionally classified as audiences". Typically, an audience is seen as being a passive receptor of information, as the listener or the viewer. While an audience may engage in interpretation of meaning, the ideal audience is the one that calls the least attention to itself. The public sphere is a realm of our social life in which something approaching public opinion can be formed. Voluntary associations: non-profits, civic organizations, political parties. Public spaces: coffeehouses, taverns, town squares, parks. Public media infrastructures: internet, open source technology. Expression: newspapers, journals, books, lectures, debates, forums, music, art. Today newspapers and magazines, radio and television are the media of the public sphere. This space refers to the political public sphere, when public discussion deals with objects connected to the activity of the state.
