[JOURNAL 345] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (24 pages long)

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Make sure your paper is organized and answers the questions fully. Be sure to include examples of your news diet. Hard copy, double-spaced, stapled, 12-point font, due at the beginning of class. Brock turner case and how he wants to speak on college campuses about alcohol abuse. The economics of media: ownership, industry, and political economy. Marxist analysis: what it is, and why we use it. As marx saw it, ownership, control, and class privelege were all linked. Media goods provide accounts and images of the world that can determine how we understand that world. Ownership dictates economic power, which in turn shapes our cultural and political products, which includes information and news. The material conditions of our lives affect how we understand social institutions and the world around us. Those who are concerned about these questions of economy and power use them to analyze the media industry and its products are considered political economists .