JAV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Year 2000 Problem, Economic System, Consumerism
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Lec 09: mass media and the corporate image. The individual is not really free, we all exist in systems that are constantly manipulated. Everyone knows where they are, communicates news to most of the population through tv and radio so news is known almost instantly, mass/collective experience. Social media, newspaper, radio, television, telegraph, etc. Way to communicate a message to a large group of people in a relatively short amount of time/instantaneously. Glen gould - revolutionized musical experience, rejected bourgeois experience of going to a music hall to listen to music, but cutting and distributing music to be listened to at home. Cbs - radio network , has a broader reach. Cnn - 24-hour news network revolutionizes how news is received, news at any time from any place in the world, panels used to fill air time. Mass media is a system that disseminates information to a large number of people at the same time.