SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Independent News, Lou Dobbs, Opiate
1 Sep 2016
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Media influences all institutions key institute in society (1) mass media interpersonal communications directed to the vast audience. According to (television standardizes children"s minds and stereotypes their imaginations. Urie bronfrenbrennar referred to the television viewing as, the unmaking of the american child (1962) The term mass media, derives from the term mass-large clump, shapeless piece of matter (2) media in the us and canada. The 1850 census catalogued 2,526 newspaper titles then increased to 11,314 by the 1880s: there was a different newspaper title in every town, newspaper was very important back in the day. By the 1960s radio and television surpassed the newspaper. By the 2000s radio and tv were being surpassed by the internet. 1990"s www: commercial to sell products (first pizza was sold online) 2000 capitalism and globalization. (3) selectivity of the news: Leftist argue note that news coverage of ethnic minorities is negative.
