SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Manufacturing Consent, Interculturalism, Long Term Ecological Research Network
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Published on 28 Nov 2011
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•newspaper as ritual
•affirm values that readers already believe rather than give new knowledge
•maintenance of society and time
•representation of shared beliefs
•container for human action
•confirmation of dominant reality
•news as human hunger for experience and sharing - Carey
•form communities based on shared interests, common communication
•Carey rejected notion that newspaper were watchdog of democracy, but newspapers
were the public sphere and democracy
•newspapers as representing majority - Hackett
•plurality reflected by media
•Globe and Mail and Occupy, civic wrongs emphasized
•people’s adherence to minority views declining due to portrayals
•Lippman - public opinion irrelevant to government law-making because incoherent, not
organized, function of mass media newspapers as manufacturing consent for citizens
to support government; choosing to establish certain news
•mythology - what we believe about ourselves as a group, true or not
•i.e. notions of Toronto vs reality (safe and multiculturally integrated vs growing poverty
and old transit system), but if believe in myth act as it is true
•3 spheres of public thought
•Cowen: press not successful at telling what people think, but successful in giving
people something to think about
•democracy trivialized by press -> election
•politicians and journalists, politics as a game,
•focus on polls
•committed journalists need empathy
•internet and newspapers changing meaning of content
•alternatives vs niched
•bringing down elitism of newspaper and democratizing it
•Twitter and social media
•question of if news will be data organized by mobs or news organizations will remain
•still depending on others for news but question of how, mainstream or alternative filter
of experience
•Jenny Yang and G20 coverage on Toronto Star
•Star siding with Charter vs others with peace, order and government
•inside coverage on people using live blogs, smartphones, social media...
•social justice, social liberties
•affiliated audience, “on board”
•decline in newspapers linked to decline in ___ participation
•multiculturalism vs pluralism, interculturalism
•Cunningham and democracy
SMC315
Monday, November 28, 2011