SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hyperreality, Computer Language, Bell Media
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Mass media help us forge our very identities, our notions of gender, our sense of class, of ethnicity and race, of nationality, of sexuality. Mass media help shape our vision of the world, our values, how we think, how we feel, what we believe, what we fear, how we should behave. Media connects those who produce message to those who receive them. Mass media: any technologically based means of communicating between large numbers of people distributed widely over space or time. Internet: the network infrastructure that links together the worlds millions of computer"s. World wide web: the computer language that allows us to access information on the internet. Media literacy: the ability to access analyze, evaluate, create in media in variety of forms. Surveillance: tell us what is happening around the worlds. Interpretation: media interprets what is going on and and tells us how we should respond.
