SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Media, The Daily Courant, Fake News
Document Summary
Media helps forge identity (e. g. gender, class), our vision of the world, our values, how we think, how we feel, what we believe, what we fear (make us worry about different things) Word popularized over course of last two years w/ trump presidency. Trump declared press the enemy of the people . Misinformation and disinformation is a significant part of media assumption. False news more novel than true news, readers more likely to share. To take place of face to face communication. Capitalist industrialization promoted the search for profit. Mass media itself as a source of profit (paying for a subscription) Coordinate the operation of industrial and postindustrial societies. Act as agents of socialization (the process by which we pick up norms, values, cultural heritage) Engage in social control by helping ensure conformity. Narcotization: a situation where people become so overwhelmed by the amount of info that they receive that they become numb and do not act on the info.
