CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation International, Exhibitionism, Civil Society
10 Dec 2018
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The emergence of and resistance to civil society. 50s/60s obsession with control of tech and race to space and well as media culture in the us while other countries were preoccupied with regime changes. Modernization theory have differences between habermas and administrative take on modernization. Linking together the expression of personal experience with the personification of social issues and problems. Function of the show is to establish a bond with audience. Effect on the public"s attitude towards members of a marginalized group. Are about being out of the norm. Or making the ordinary extraordinary or vice versa. About public norm catering to private desires. First talk-show let the brave speak established a precedent to a number of current shows that are televised throughout the middle east. Importance: represents a symptom of civil society and an alternative public sphere. Lebanese broadcasting corporation international (lbci: commercial, modern station and one of the first to be distributed through satellite.
