COM 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Zoopraxiscope, Federal Radio Commission, Outsmart
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Mass communication limited attention spans: prefer to be entertained vs enlightened, quickly lose interest in any subject that makes intellectual commands. Media distracts us from paying closer atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) to so(cid:272)ial i(cid:374)e(cid:395)uities (cid:894)a(cid:374)d do(cid:374)"t add(cid:396)ess the(cid:373)(cid:895) Regulation- control of media through rules and procedures in the public interest. Concentration of ownership- few companies owning a lot of media outlets. Oligopoly- concentration of many media companies into a smaller number of companies. He also developed a system for pressing paper against inked type. Permitted info and knowledge to spread (cid:862)the whole book of psal(cid:373)s(cid:863) first book written in harvard in cambridge, ma. Stamp act- all printing had to be done on official stamped paper. Lowering of journalistic quality, result of a marketplace change. Ap- short for access point, a hardware device or a computer"s software that acts as a communication hub for users of a wireless device to connect to a wired lan.
