[COMN 1000] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (33 pages long)

• School: York University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMN 1000
• Professor: David Skinner

Document Summary

In news: 3 areas problems: news often focuses on economics or tourism, other (hard) news suffers coups and earthquakes syndrome (sensationalism, vast areas of the world are left out. In other media: foreign language versions of northern media products flow south carrying stereotypes and ideologies (eg. time, reader"s digest, books, television shows) By offering only a western, industrial-capitalist perspective on the world, these media seen as destroying ways of life in these places. Thru the 1970-s unesco was site of battle over this issue. Called for the establishment of a new world information and communications order (nwico) that foregrounded the communication rights of the countries and peoples on the periphery (south) U. s. and the u. k. pulled out of unesco. Now most trade agreements now have clauses regarding copyright and intellectual property rights which implicitly serve to acknowledge rights of access and free flow . Today idea of cultural imperialism has lost much currency.