JRN 401 Midterm: Midterm Review Notes.docx

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Oral spreading of news secret news = manuscripts mechanical or printed news . Broadsides (sensational news) financial news the public sphere news, revolution and politics penny press telegraph and news agencies first mass medium radio news television news the internet and a universe of choice. News = social medium, organizes world in substantial ways. Technology = factor but does not determine everything, way in which technology is implemented is up to us. Major effects of news: changing boundary between public and private (evolution of publicness, the changing organization of time and space through media, aggregation and disaggregation of audiences and content. Columbus letters = best sellers, allowed news of discovery to get out (late. Irregular + entrepreneurial, disaggregated form (one event at a time) Martin luther"s 95 theses (challenge power of catholic church) early 1500s. Early print very sensationalistic focus on murder and other crimes, royalty. Lessons of obedience of religious and political authorities.

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