SOC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Symbolic Interactionism, Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100
• Professor: Stephen Speake

Document Summary

Mass media communicaions that target large audiences. Youtube is considered a disrupive force" in mass media because it distributes and popularizes both commercial media and challenges to commercial media. Tomi t. ahonen is an expert on the monetary structure of mass media and states that mobile phones are now the most pervasive technology on the planet. Marshal mcluhan claimed that each new technological invenion or medium fundamentally changes the way that society experiences life. The structuralism perspecive states that the manifest funcion of the media is provide people with current communicaions and informaion. The latent funcion of the media is to shape that informaion in keeping with the wishes of a handful of individuals in charge of the corporaions that own the media. The music industry is split between three corporaions, and the television industry is divided between ive corporaions. The enirety of mass media is owned by six conglomerate companies.