CMST 1A03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Industrial Revolution, Bourgeoisie, Mass Media
18 Jan 2017
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Readings 3 chapter 3; media history and canadian context. Mass media is more than sources of information and entertainment: they are essential social, political and cultural institutions. Shift in focus in this chapter from communication technology to the larger social and historical contexts that give that technology form and function. The european roots of media and western society: Modern mass media began to emerge in fifteenth century europe with johannes. Gutenberg"s development of the printing press in germany: marks beginning of the renaissance, the renaissance paved the way for liberal-democratic industrial societies and modern forms of mass media. Major aspect of the renaissance: the rediscovery and revival of learning and literature from antiquity that had been lost in the middle ages. Both reformation and renaissance were brought to a close in europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the counter-reformation: a conservative backlash that re-established monarchial absolutism, particular writers and heretics were tortured and executed.
