COMM 1174 Lecture 1: 1-20
22 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Media and Society
I. Definitions
a. What are media?
i. Tools we use to communicate
1. Language, words, etc
2. Very broad
3. Electronic media=technologies
a. Telegraph, broadcast radio station, streaming video.
ii. Organizations that process symbolic expression
1. One of the main ways that we communicate is through symbolic
expression
a. Cultural industries: magazine, newspaper, TV, radio, gaming,
film
i. Content industries
ii. Google is NOT a otet idustr. It gies aess… it is a
tool
b. Usually for profit
i. Commercial industries produces most about what we
know about society
b. What is society?
i. Society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large
social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically
subject to the same political authority and doiat ultural epetatios.
1. Large group of people that are coordinated in some manner
2. Subject to political authority
3. Dominant cultural expectations teach us certain things too
ii. Is society a mutual collective activity?
1. All of us are striving together to make society better
iii. Is society a struggle for power by different groups?
1. Certain groups have more power, and struggle to keep it, and some
groups do’t hae poer, ad struggle to gai it
c. What is culture?
i. The sols of epressio that idiiduals, groups, and societies use to make
sese of dail life ad artiulate their alues. KNOW FOR MIDTERM
ii. How we understand society
iii. Set of symbolic interaction through which we understand ourselves and the
society we live in
iv. Terrain on which social groups struggle for poer i toda’s soiet
v. I toda’s orld, edia ARE ulture
1. Through newspaper, tv, radio, newspaper, etc
2. Sets of struggles between different groups in society to increase their
access to social power, political power, etc
find more resources at oneclass.com
find more resources at oneclass.com
