SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Beyond Tv, Berlin Wall, Mass Society
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Living in the midst of the digital revoluion nothing is certain and oten get it wrong. 1950"s mass media: mass society hypothesis. Everyone watched the same tv shows in the 50"s listened to same music and same movies. Overabundance of media: 500 channels, neflix, anywhere tv, social media. Broad and systemaic comparisons: vietnam war vs iraq war. No media during the wars: vietnam. First tv war no social media existed. Tv and iraq: journalists embedded units. No tv plays a big part: drat army vs voluntary army. Dallas and the end of communism: soviet union. Tv and revoluion, 1989: tiananmen square, berlin wall. Paris riots, 2007: suburbs are illed with many problems (cars were being burned every night)! Journalist wrote that riots came about because of the use of cellphones. 10 days to spread riots across paris. 4 days to spread riots across germany.
