COMN 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Oligopoly, Meritocracy, Openmedia.Ca

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 1000
• Professor: George Georgopoulos

Document Summary

Political economy: advertising and the audience as commodity, markets and market segmentation. Media and the public sphere: economics, politics, and the news: policy and the public interest" or public good", neo-liberalism and media deregulation (and reregulation) Are we" charlie: the university and the public sphere. Media, the public sphere and market externalities": consumer vs. citizen, cultural citizenship". The politics of speech: from the french revolution to. Al jazeera and free speech": legislation and media policy. Free speech and freedom of assembly: protest and the media. Security", public order" and the regulation of journalism. Media framing, islamophobia, and the debates over the charlie hebdo murders: what does the defense of. Elements of the media: groups served by the media: owners; audiences, media resources: labour; technology; material resources; advertisers; workers; governments capital. Disney and rogers: two case studies: convergence and conglomeration. The golden globes and the myth of meritocracy: 2. Media concentration vs. the public good: 3.