AHSS*1060 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Canada, Television In Canada, Unesco
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Affects us on an individual (relationship, family, careers), societal (characteristics of society, how we communicate) and global level. Communication technology shrinks space (reduces time to accomplish certain tasks, globe feels smaller) Privatization + commercialism: a company buys and sells for the sake of profit (can create monopolies which exploit consumers). Privatizing media allows for more biases + show stories for readership rather than importance. Privacy - increase in surveillance, invasion of privacy. Digital divide: difference in development + use of info and comm. tech b/w rich and poor countries and the haves and have-nots within a society. Communication: the act of making a message common b/w 2 people. Too simplistic; does not consider social variables of comm. (ex. language, culture, education, ethnicity) Emphasizes social and media variables throughout each process of comm. Sees comm. as structured and dependant on social elements. Audiences of mass comm. are unsophisticated (media is dumbed down so.
