CMNS 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Communications Act Of 1934, Communications System, Classical Liberalism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 130
• Professor: Piotrowski

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Cmns 130 study questions for week 3. Freedman (2008: explain the difference between liberal pluralism and neoliberalism. Participants use it to describe and justify the existing arrangements of media policy. Agreement that there is no single dominant voice in us politics, but there are some inequalities: some people have better connections, recourse. Provides an explanatory framework for modern liberal democratic politics. Based on the recognition of group diversity and the attempt to maximize productivity of group bargaining to achieve social cohesion. More likely critiques, than it defends the current terms and conditions regarding media policy. Maximizes roles of markets and profit-making, while minimizing role of nonmarket institutions, which explains the trends of: deregulation, liberalization, privatization, marketization. Deregulation: desire to reduce/remove role of the state form the regulation of media industries; they should be controlled through creative. Marketization: market forces provide the most powerful logic for the organization of the environment as a whole.