CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Paul Lazarsfeld, Mass Media, Cross Ownership
14 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
What is media/medium: text anything that can be examined for further, deeper meaning, a text can be a variety of things including television shows, color, anything with meaning. Four characteristics: critical sensibility, cultural policy focus less canadian culture, more from us and hollywood. Need more: orientation towards social justice must fight inequality, sexism, racism. Interdisciplinary women studies, sociology, poli sci, information studies. Not multiple perspectives: black tuesday southam and thomson thomson sold its newspaper to southam for. Southam to have dominance with lack of competition in its market (montreal) and. Southam sold its newspaper in the city of choice to thomson (vancover) who then had dominance in that market: led to review of mass media, created royal commission on newspapers (kent commission) When media companies specializing in different forms of media come together to take advantage of presumed synergies enabled by digitization/digital content. Time warner) integrate smaller companies (ie aol) in order to use their tech to spread their media.
