SOSC 3992 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Semiotics, Mass Media

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3992
• Professor: Allyson Lunny

Document Summary

Act as a forum for the representation of law. It(cid:859)s a showcase for law in part because it is circulated socially. Messages of law are communicated broadly to the culture at large. Also are as a site of contestation: It is an act of sight of meaning. When thinking of how the state is represented, the detonated understanding is that the legal state is (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g us (cid:894)la(cid:449), o(cid:396)de(cid:396), justi(cid:272)e, the (cid:862)good(cid:863)(cid:895) The understandings of each subject position is in flux, has not been established yet. Meanings are never fixed, they are always circulating and in contestation (cid:862)po(cid:449)e(cid:396)(cid:863) (cid:894)the state(cid:895) is atte(cid:373)pti(cid:374)g to sig(cid:374)if(cid:455) so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:862)bad offe(cid:374)de(cid:396), taki(cid:374)g (cid:455)ou to t(cid:396)ial to pu(cid:374)ish (cid:455)ou. (cid:863) But sometimes meanings get away from the controlled interest of the state (contestation begins) By entering into public discourse, media representation would be one way to achieve this, trials that become popular circulate in such a way as to produce multiple and contested meanings.