CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Scientific Management, Commodification, Working Class Culture

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 1A03
• Professor: Christine Quail

Document Summary

Media and social forms: telegraph: coordination of govt, business, people, telephone: business, coordination -- furthered economy. Communication and social forms: photography: created connections to people and events in far away places, magazines: carried news, consumer information and advertisements, motion picture: films developed early on as cheap. It was popular among the working class and not so much the rich. Considered working class culture : celebrity: development of celebrity also helps with the development of mass media. With the development of photography and movies, celebrities were being mass produced. Commodity and communication: commodity: something that is bought and sold, commodification: (karl marx) - transforming use value into exchange value. A face can be become commodified, as well as objects. Newspaper: progression of press ownership: ownership by corporations, were from a political perspective, later newspaper companies wanted to appeal to everyone so they developed the journalistic practice of objectivity.