Sociology 2259 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Media Matters For America, Mobile Computing, Inflectional Phrase
28 Oct 2017
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Media and individuals: administrative research: media can affect people"s thoughts and feelings (minds) and behav- media itself conducts and makes use admin research better influence users. Identity formed within media representations- agent socialization, frames present minorities may become integrated into ident. Media ownership: convergence- media companies owning multiple forms media, conglomeration- trend toward media companies merging/ some companies purchasing other companies form multinational conglomerates, concentration- small number corps control majority of media products, 1983, approx. 50 companies owned and operated media most parts world: 2003, small fraction companies controlled most global media, 2011, 6 companies held most power: time warner, the walt disney company, news. Corporation, cbs, viacom and general electric (all own diverse forms media)- all us media and much of global media: cn media owned and controlled 7 media giants- bell cn, woodbridge, rogers, Quebecor, shaw, torstar and postmedia: corp empires control every means by which pop learns of its society.
