SOC224 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Kevin Trudeau, Biomedicine, Sensory Deprivation
4 May 2014
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Ref works: can put things into files and there is an option for creating a bibliography for you. Don"t have to direct quote from each of them (paraphrase is better) Media: any form of communication that targets a mass audience. Traditional: print, radio, cinema, tv (one way: someone is depicting media to you, not you back to them. Emerging (social media 2. 0): email, twitter, facebook etc. One of the core pedagogical (educational) forces in contemporary society. Teaches us norms values, who is deviant and who is not. Defines social problems and shapes public debates ie) raves. We immediately associate ecstasy with raves because the media has made it to be like this. Globally, media is highly concentrated in a few key corporations. Provincial papers are all owned by the same huge companies. Investigative journalism is a dying bread so more and more we"re getting the same stories country wide. It"s cost effective and now they send it to 100 people.
