CMN 1160 Midterm: CMN1160 Midterm 1 Notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Kyle Conway

Document Summary

Draw on empiricist epistemology (how we know what we know) , knowing the world through observation. Distinguish between media as technology (physical apparatus) and media as cultural form (uses to which that apparatus is put ) Producers make shows, sell advertising, and inform the public. Viewers watch tv for entertainment, information, and to belong to a community. Producers know what views are doing and vice versa. How feedback between producers and viewers causes the system to change. The process through which people make collective decisions (gasher et al. p. 34) The public sphere is a place for deliberation. People in power (companies, governments) try to in uence the media to in uence politics. Citizens try to gain information (though freedom of information mechanisms) about their government. Even our face to face interactions are now mediated. Provide identity to hold groups together (religious, nations)