CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Noam Chomsky, Oligopoly, Carleton University

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

Outline: communication, power, and social orders: what is mass media , part 1: mass culture and mass production and its effects on cultures of communication and media, part 2: media consolidation and ownership. Mass media: significance: social orders: bureaucracy and industrial capitalism, culture and authenticity. Charlie chaplin: modern times: workers in the factory are to work as fast and hard as possible, while the president of the company is relaxing. In terms of productivity, how far can you take the system before it crashes. Broadcast media : one organization communicating at a distance to a large multitude, newspapers, radio, cinema, tc, etc, advertising, entertainment, propaganda, news, factory model is essentially applied into the production of media. Before mass media, extremely difficult to apply stimulus/response models to audiences: example: world war 2 propaganda models, rise of american consumer culture, commercialization, advertising.