CMN 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Public Sphere, Edward Bernays, Mass Media

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 600
• Professor: shiga

Document Summary

Week 8: public sphere: setting the stage for democratic participation in science communication, taking the pulse of the public sphere today: Jurgen habermas: what we know today as the public is actually a recent historical formation. Public sphere: arena of collective self-determination through the medium of talk . Conversation driven by cooperation to find common ground, not by competition or. The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. 2009 controversy about the release of thousands of emails between researchers at the climate research unit at u. of.