MDSA01H3 Study Guide - Jean Baudrillard, Oligopoly, Profit Maximization

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Midterm exam study guide: critical media studies. Everything we know is learned in one of two ways: somatically these are the things we know through direct sensory perception of our environment. Ex) we know what some things look, smell, feel, sound, or taste like because we personally have seen, smelled, felt, heard, or tasted them: symbolically these are the things we know through someone or something. Ex) parent, friend, teacher, museum, textbook, photograph, radio, film, television, or the internet. Medium middle; that which comes between two things. Mass media communication technologies that have the potential to reach a large audience in remote location. German printer johannes gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press in 1450. Made it relatively cheap after the invention. Press allowed for an unprecedented circulation of knowledge to far-flung cities across europe. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the newspaper industry experienced explosive growth. Since 1973, however, newspaper circulation has steadily declined.

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