MDSA02H3 Midterm: mid term notes for MDSA01
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This chapter examines an alternative, though not necessarily mutually exclusive, explanation rooted in analysis or organizational and professional cultures. Why media organizations, a specific medium, or mass media institution produces the kinds of content it does. Organizations: comprised of employers and employees, a system (network)of ordered relationships and coordinated activities directed toward specific goals. There are two basic dimensions structure and process. Structure: the underlying framework that shapes an organization over time, and includes three elements: hierarchy, differentiation and specialization, and formalization. Hierarchy refers to the specific arrangement of job role and positions based upon authority within an organization. Differentiation and specialization accounts for the division of companies into units, department and position each of which perform a specific task, often requiring certain skill or training. Formulation is the degree to which specific practices must conform to accepted organizational and professional conventions.
