MDSA01H3 Lecture 2: Introduction to Media Studies Lecture 2 Marxist Theory
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Our media is controlled by very few companies like rogers, and bell: doing critical media studies: It is an outlook on life: wrong: media literacy and the critical process essentially state that we should have a cynical view of media , theory every way of seeing is also a way of not seeing. It can highlight and make some things seem bigger than they might be. Marxist theory: economy structures reality- marxist view, the mode of production (economic relations) is the base or the determinant element of our thoughts. The ruling class, this is what marxist theory explores: the ruling class the bourgeoisie bourgeoisie try to convince everyone that capitalism is natural and therefore eternal, neoliberalism- taken front and center, is the rule of the market. Corporate media has everything to lose and nothing to gain by overturning the system and so they don"t. effects what story gets told and what stories don"t get told.
