COMM 1F90 Chapter 1: Defining the Media (1): Notes
12 Dec 2018
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Media comprise our personal and social and cultural identity. For most people today, the world around us is what structures us, and each thing is connected by how they all come together. Media history: gutenberg printing press (western culture); led to the reproduction & distribution of information and entertainment on paper. Capitalism: the dominant global economic system, organized by workers selling their labour for wages, and interest and economic growth. Capitalism, which gradually replaced the feudal economic system from about. 1600, is characterized by private ownership and control of the means of production (capital) by individuals and corporations.
