CMN3109- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 21 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3109
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

Cmn3109 a advanced theories of the media. Revision of communications theories: public sphere important to civilization with voices, communications as a multi-disciplinary field, habermas & marx. Critical - views the media as tools that circulate the ideologies of the elites in order to get the consent of public. Habermas who is a product of the school: public sphere as it allows for social debate about facts, critical theorists believe: the media, and those who control it, use hegemonic principles. Critical theory: what makes critical theories critical: put power relations into question, uncover hegemonic ideologies. It involves the production and maintenance of ways of thinking and seeing that exclude alternative discourses and voices. Habermas and the public sphere part 1. Timeline: 1954 dissertation on the philosopher f. schelling, became the research assistant (ra) of adorno (& horkeimer) at the. Debate: participation: each gives opinion, consent to follow norms, each has to propose own norms etc.