COMM 1F90 Lecture : COMM 1F90 Oct 21.docx
22 Oct 2013
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Language is not natural or neutral, it is a changing site of power struggles. Language and media are forms of social construction. Representation: * to look like or resemble, *to stand in or speak for something or someone, *to present a second time, re-present. Representations are shaped by social position of those producing them. There is no one truth out there we all share on representations, it is all biased, the problem is the biased are not always explicit. Position is not always made clear so we don"t know how those representations are being taken. It is to suggest that some things are truer then other things. Myth of objectivity: *news is reported by the omniscient writer, never in the first person, *news is always a neutral collection of facts. But we know journalists write from a specific social position; they may select some facts, ignore or distort others (not deliberate).
