CS101 Lecture Notes - Tim Berners-Lee, Quebecor, Friendster
Document Summary
We don"t own the material that we read/are exposed to! Mass communication: how we use the media to mould and direct the public. Television at home (television used to be a public media, people didn"t own it themselves until the 60"s or 80"s) great transformation between the 1980 boom-box and today"s ipod (your own playlist) In 1983, there were 50 major corporations that produced most of the media in the world; today there are 5 (they produce messages that serve themselves) 3 corporations make up 83% of the media production in francophone canada, one of which is. Quebecor (has a right-wing bias), state media (middle bias), no left-wing bias. There are many different media outlets, some of which we produce independently (alternative media) In work, there is a boss and a manual which give us a rule-bound life. Different public interests form parts of our reality.
