POLS 2940 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Debt Relief, Photojournalism, Citizen Journalism
7 Nov 2016
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Chapter 8: how do we find out what"s going on in the world? (global politics: edkins, zehfuss) Recognizing our specific positions means that nobody has firsthand access to activities and events going on outside of their specific and immediate context. We must have the appropriate equipment and skills to receive and understand this information. We see that the objects, issues, and events we usually study, do not even exist without the media without the technologies of communications to express them. But we do form our opinions based on what we receive about these events from various media sources like television programmes, webpages, newspaper articles, and twitter feeds. We know about issues and formulate our opinions on them by consuming interpreting media representations. Bias is not something the media can escape: there is no possibility of representing the world in a way that doesn"t also advocate a particular and necessarily biased picture of the world.
