SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Samizdat, Netflix, Mass Society
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Week 8: sociology - culture, media, social media. Images and film vetted: is tv enough, draft army vs. volunteer army, https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=-hz4fnin0va&feature=youtu. be, soviet union. China lets it go on for a while, then killed most of them. Media and protest: has the new media revolutionized revolts (social protests), to answer we need. Broad and systematic comparisons: vietnam war vs. iraq war, vietnam. Black lives matter : to exist it depends on the media. Tons of pictures are available on media. However, what really carried it forward were actually protests. Some issues hardly ever appear: congo war, war central african republic. Social constructionist perspective: how issues become newsworthy: claims-making (tons of this) public issues celebrity news, amount of media attention to an issue is often unrelated to its. Objective" seriousness i. e. socially constructed (note: it is not always easy to measure seriousness". Constructed socially, doesn"t matter how serious other issues are.
