JOUA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Newspaper Circulation, Public Sphere, Rape Culture
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Joua01 lecture 9 how to commit to journalism. Journalism in 2016: effective communication is power. Belief in the power of mass media, newspaper circulation peaked in 1910 in us/canada. Popular press used sensation to sell papers. War mobilized the press to support the government. >> popular war efforts were managed by the news media. Mass media became propaganda agencies in germany and the soviet union. Less historical memory, experience and context in journalism more emotion. G(cid:396)eate(cid:396) (cid:396)elia(cid:374)(cid:272)e o(cid:374) offi(cid:272)ials to (cid:272)(cid:396)eate a(cid:374) (cid:862)alte(cid:396)(cid:374)ati(cid:448)e (cid:396)eality(cid:863) fo(cid:396) politi(cid:272)al (cid:272)lass. Factors for successful communication: national media industry, consensus about what should be communicated. Problems and possible solutions: public trust/distrust in the media. Each new mass media greeted as a public good for education, national identity, community. New media feared for its disrupting influences. Mass media: refe(cid:396)(cid:396)i(cid:374)g to the (cid:862)(cid:373)asses(cid:863) referring to the general public: concept of audiences; not individuals, democracy in media means appealing to the broadest collectivity.
