MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Fourth Estate, Press Release, Designer Drug
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Media scholars employing an organizational perspective seek to understand why media organizations, a specific medium, or the mass media institution produces the kinds of content it does . Work is a central feature in our lives. Our work lives are defined by whom we work with and for. Employers and employees comprise organizations- a system (network) of ordered relationships and coordinated activities directed toward specific goals. Organizations have two basic dimensions: structure and process. Structure describes the underlying framework that shapes an organization over time. Process reflects the actual substance built upon that framework. Assessing communicative practices organizational culture: the set(s) of norms and customs, artifacts and events, values and assumptions that emerge as a consequence of organizational members. This is aka trademark performances bc they are strongly associated w. particular members. Organizational rituals are attending weekly faculty meetings ~ involve routine bhrs that are necessitated by the workplace environment. Narratives: stories members tell about their workplace experiences.
