SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Media Play, W. M. Keck Observatory

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

Document Summary

A neutral zone where access to info affecting the public good is widely available. Discussion is free of domination, and those participating do so on an equal basis. The transformation of the public sphere from a space of rational discussion (place for engagement), debate and consensus to a space of mass consumption. Use their status to reenforcing a certain idea, ideology, belief. Idea that a citizen"s political leader is our representatives the challenge: what do the citizens what in a demographic society? what do they think. For habermas cftt traditional media embodied the potential for an important democratic functions in the operation of a demographic society by providing a form for information exchange and engagement. 3 functions of medias (in a democratic society) includes commercial and news/information media: public information. In a context where mass society/culture cant be everywhere. Media can watch for us (journalists) and report back to us: public representative. A citizen"s political leaders are our representatives.