CMNS 130 Study Guide - Final Guide: Foxconn, Essentialism, Magnet School

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

Document Summary

Castells: outline what the links are given in the article between politics, media politics, the politics of scandal, and the crisis of political legitimacy, and how they converge, politics is based on socialized communication that influences people"s minds. Media politics refers to the idea if something is not in media, it is not in people"s minds. Media doesn"t necessarily hold pwer but makes power. All of this converges with media making power and being a powerful tool. If there"s a scandal, it may affect elections (think: Indexing- journalists and editors limit the range of politics expressed within the mainstream political establishment. Talking about yourself to a big audience, social media blogs- people appropriating new communication to make their own systems of mass communication. It"s a new form of socialization that reaches a lot of people and is self generated. Path to interactive multimedia access: open platforms.