SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rupert Murdoch, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Technological Determinism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Tonio Sadik

Document Summary

Constraints: (1) format and routines: routines developed because journalists have produce content pretty quickly. Press conferences are another way of doing this, relying on of cial sources in order to gain information. Press conference something happens, some corporation is af liated, the company responsible will address the issue. Media advisory goes out, whatever gures who can speak on the issue in a less-damaging way. Technical needs met for the press, information available which summarizes what happened. Re ection of the spoonfeeding that takes place same information and imagery used by different medias. Impartiality: don"t take sides or hold an ideological perspective. We have a conception of what it is to watch the news. No no it"s true i heard it on the news. Ascribing absolute truth to something that is on the news. History (rupert murdoch, conrad black, ted rodgers) of very political people owning major media organizations, known partiality because they have very strong ideological views.