SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Press Pool, Alternative Media
13 Jul 2011
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Draw conclusions through a binary of left or right. Determined through the binary by: social, economic and religion. The boundary between the left and the right is becoming blurry. Example: an article in the globe and mail encoded a message. The decoding is arrived by 3 positions: dominance, negotiated(the reader comes to a sense to autonomy(accept and reject portions of the text etc. The media means that there is only one media. Medias are contradictory because of the whole political spectrum cannot by represented by one media. Partisan perspective: exam something according to your political affiliation. Media extends to social and aesthetics: social is the issue or story. Social + aesthetics = social constructor of reality. Psychological concerns of media contradiction, social+aesthetics, psychological: propaganda- set of messages that influence or set the viewers mind. One of the criticism is that it selectively give facts on a particular issue: censorship: removal or withholding particular facts or truths.
