MDSA01H3 Study Guide - Medical Drama, Narrowcasting, Egalitarianism
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Marxist media scholars effects of ownership and economics on the production and distribution of media content. Media content = product (shapes the way it looks and circulates) Contemporary patterns of media ownership industry moves toward increasing consolidation and incorporation which diminish competition and encourage standardization of the mass media. Historical materialism the material world (i. e. natural phenomenon and processes) precedes human thought. Base / superstructure model = (social) superstructure / (economic) base. Superstructure: social consciousness: encoded in institutions (culture:art/media, religion, education, politics, judicial system) Ruling ideas (ruling material force + ruling intellectual force) has the means of material production at its disposal + controls the means of mental production. Aspects of a mode of production: forces / means of production, relations of production land, natural resources, technology (needed to produce material goods) labor practices & ownership (of property, company shares, the way goods are distributed)