Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Civic Journalism, Federal Communications Commission, Music Of Canada

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G
• Professor: Nick Dyer- Witheford

Document Summary

This has not always been how people have thought about government and media. How people consider the topic of government and media is at this very moment changing. Contrast between free markets" and state control (very binary: free market capitalism (economic order that we live in, state control socialist/communist regimes which capitalism contested in the. Cold war: capitalism versus authoritarian socialist regimes. With the latter associated with: propaganda, official art, censorship. Must have state power to enforce property rights, contract agreements and company law necessary for commodity exchange. Regulation = term used to describe all sorts of state intervention in media sphere. De-regulation = term used to describe the removal of state intervention in media sphere: often represented as increase in personal freedoms, liberating people from the burden of the state. In practice, de-regulation = an increase in corporate power: and expansion in the ability of private companies to act with wide latitude, recipe for increasing personal liberties/freedoms.