COMN 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Agence France-Presse, Macbride Report, Media Imperialism

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 1000
• Professor: David Skinner

Document Summary

Cultural imperialism: the ways in which one culture imposes ideas and values on another culture. Media and cultural products are primary vehicle for such imposiion. Media imperialism: the dominaion of one country or region"s media by another country or region; ii) the use of the media to build empires of inluence and control . (north/south; Transnaional news and info lows generally follow paterns of economic dominaion. 2nd ater ww ii and into the 1960"s & 70"s re: modernizaion . Ater ww ii growing unrest led to modernizaion, an atempt to convert tradiional socieies into industrial socieies ( green revoluion, foreign investment, tech transfer, etc) (cuba, central and south america, africa, middle east) . Dependency theory argued these policies were making these countries dependent on countries in the north. France press, tass. : leads to problem in representaion in news and other media products. In news: 3 areas problems: news oten focuses on economics or tourism;