COMN 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sound Recording And Reproduction, Profit Motive, Air Canada
19 Jan 2016
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Canada"s media or cultural industries = television, newspapers, film, sound recording, book and magazine publishing, (including their on-line elements,) as well as new digital media, video games etc What is culture ? the knowledge, beliefs, arts, ideas, customs, institutions, and all other capabilities and habits acquired by the members of a particular society (vital links:11). Culture is a way or ways of life. Central to understanding each other and ways of life. Because central role producing and circulating perspectives/ideas on ways of life. They are vehicles through which culture ( or ways of life) are produced, circulated and. Lived. (e. g. part of work, leisure, social and political knowledge, taste and identity development, social interaction) Canadian media industries are structured like other canadian industries. (eg. generally privately owned; driven by the profit motive; sometimes a large degree of foreign ownership; products are often foreign)
