[CMNS 130] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (39 pages long!)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 130
• Professor: Enda Brophy

Document Summary

We"ve looked at the development of the mass media system and early theories seeking. How do they see the power relations between the media, the message, and the. We"ve also looked at 3 political perspectives and mapped them on to these theories of to explain it audience? media. Today we begin to explore our era, what some call the network society . We are entering the second half of the course. The network society is one of many names applied to our historical age. Our hypothesis is that we"ve gone from an era of mass communication to one of networked communication. Most scholars agree there has been a significant shift since the 1970s. Among the most high-profile researchers of these shifts is manuel castells (the. Information age: economy, society, culture is his main work) A network is made up of nodes, ties and flows. Darrin barney says there are four ways our social world has taken on network characteristics: