CMNS 110 Study Guide - Final Guide: News Broadcasting, Media Consumption, Media Filter

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 110
• Professor: George Zhang

Document Summary

First world war national war aims of contending states. Nazi germany propaganda on behalf of ruling party elites. There is no less reliance on mass media in the sphere of advertising, public relations and political campaigning. Moral panic: there are successive instances of alarm relating to the media, whenever an insoluble or inexplicable social problem arises. The most constant element has been a negative perception of the media- especially the inclination to link media portrayals of crime, sex, and violence with the seeming increase in social and moral disorder. Large number of readers, viewers/ widely dispersed / non-interactive and anonymous relations to each other / heterogeneous composition / not organized or self-acting / an object of management or manipulation by the media. Group: all members know each other, are aware of their common membership, share the same values, have a certain structure of relationship which is stable over time, and interact to achieve some purpose.