SOC103H1 Lecture Notes - Mass Media, Social Control, Canwest
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Lecture notes ( go look at slides insert graphs) Impact of mass media on us: american psycho (based on novel, everyone is a victim of consumerist mass media. The power of oprah the power of media: is she the most dangerous woman in the world, every author on oprah"s tv show has had a newyork times best seller. Canadian tv watching: on average, canadians watched about 22 hours of tv per week in. 2003, with older viewers watching more than younger people. International ranking : top: united kingdom and us, bottom: norway, sweden. The media is a very powerful input of shaping the habitus. 1800, took a month for news from halifax to reach toronto: 1850, it took a week, now, it takes seconds. 1969 arpanet communication between computers: internet grew out from this military project. Internet use by world region, june 2007: us/canada, australia etc, europe, latin america.
