MCC-UE 1028 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Royal Roads University
27 Feb 2017
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The various screens edit the game; the technical director and the producers of the game show you what to watch. The sport is inherently dramatic especially for tv & computer screens. Another way to study sports & media is to see it reflecting social problems and/or issues. The spectacle is also a site for a political critique of its own contradictions. Professor at royal roads university in canada. Previously, he was director of the e. w. scripps school of journalism at ohio university and prior to that. Director of the innovative school of communication at san diego state. Mass-mediated culture elevates otherwise mundane events of no real consequence to the status of spectacles of a powerful, quasi-sacred myth and ritual nature. A mythic activity is the collective reenactment of symbolic archetypes that express the shared emotions and ideals of a given culture. Draws on a number of communications perspectives to explain this event.
