CMN3104- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 58 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3104
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

Lecture 1: theories and approaches to media and communication. The role of the media is to expand the public sphere while distracting the public from real social issues, promotion consumption of commodities and capitalist ideologies (hegemonic: hegemony: the notion of manufacturing consent. Lecture 2: advertising and society: beyond the codes of gender. Lecture 3: intimate relationships: space, gender, bodies, and ideology. Three processes: objectification, dividing mechanisms, own internalization of identities as objects of control that is transformed into self-control (*self-censorship is the most powerful form of domination) When a women"s husband dies she has three options; 1: she is burnt with her dead husband, 2:she marries her dead husband"s brother, or 3: she is excommunicated and sent to a village with other widows. Lecture 6: struggle for gender equality in the newsrooms. Lack of newsroom policies and absence of national legislation. Lack of education on these issues in school. 1980s: this genre became popular all over the media.