SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Climate Change Denial, Theodor W. Adorno, Rogers Communications
5 Jan 2017
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A: cope with attention grabbing cultural environment the culture of flickering images . As one the agents of socialization: forges identities, selfhood, gender, class, race/ ethnicity, sexuality. Images shape view of world, natural and social. Sociology provides many of the tools we need to become media literate and to understand the role of the media in our society. Practical value in organizing your life in this post-industrial, globalized information economy. Internet: the network infrastructure that links together the world"s millions of computers. World wide web: the computer language that allows us to access information on the internet. There used to be a clear separation of the different media, but media convergence has blended them together. The media sometimes do an excellent job of telling us what is going on. Media coverage can be selective, so we learn more about some events than others. New forms of social media give the public a forum to express their views and perspectives.
