CMNS 130 Chapter Notes -Open Publishing, Economic Globalization, Quebecor
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Introduction & the cultures of democracy: how ownership and public participation. Media are source of entertainment, information, news, ideology, history, ideas, and information about products and services. Media are used to achieve political power. Media are center of canadian cultural, economic, social and political reality. Ownership affects all these aspects of democracy. Owners decide what people know and care about and how they view issues: describe the four major trends in global communication. Globalization: the transformation of communication spaces and social relations occurring across national borders, economic globalization: integration of global economy through free-trade mechanisms and international bodies such as the world trade. Organization (wto: cultural globalization: absorption and integration of global cultural forms into other cultural products and services. Deregulation: the belief by government and international trade bodies that competitive markets are fostered by not regulating the media, define: horizontal concentration ownership, vertical concentration and cross-media ownership.