MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Enculturation, Soft Media, September 11 Attacks
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Organization: a system (network) or ordered relationships and coordinated activities directed toward specific goals. Structure = form or the underlying framework of an organization: hierarchy: relationship of roles, differentiation and specialization: division of an organization into units filled with professionals, formalization: formal standards. Professional culture: the sets of norms and customs, artifacts and events, and values and assumptions that emerge as a consequence of formal training (i. e. education, apprenticeships, internships etc. ) Conventions: the norms that govern the technical and creative choices that members of an organization make. Professionalization: the process by which an individual with free will and choice is transformed into and ideologi(cid:272)al su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t (cid:449)hose (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s reaffir(cid:373) o(cid:374)e"s status as a professio(cid:374)al. How is professionalization established: training, hiring, evaluation and promotion, recognition and awards, professional societies. Underlying all news production is the profit motive. Result: dichotomization and propaganda campaigns controlled by those in power to maintain power.
