CMNS 130 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Media Consumption, Sound Recording And Reproduction, Mass Society

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 130
• Professor: David Newman

Document Summary

Print media and movable type allowed for cheap production and diverse array of pamphlets, books and other items. Allowed for unprecedented circulation of knowledge to far flung cities across europe. Broadcasting freed mass media from transportation for the first time so media consumption grew: define: convergence, mobility, fragmentation, globalization, socialization. Convergence: the tendency of formerly diverse media to share a common integrated platform. Mobility: media can come to or go with us virtually anywhere through the development of powerful microprocessors. Globalization: complex set of social, political and economic processes in which the physical boundaries and structural policies that previously reinforced the autonomy of the nation state are collapsing in favour of worldwide social relations. Choosing to include or cover some topics and to exclude or ignore others, the mass media determines what we talk and care about. Second: content lacking diverse views and opinions limit the scope of public debate/deliberation on matters of social importance.