SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Halifax Gazette, Telling Stories, Oligopoly
3 Mar 2017
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Mediascape: appadurai; impact/influence media has on our life; way media is physically disposed on our landscape. Newspapers were earliest form of mass media; 1752 halifax gazette; 1919 radio; tv. Assemble things to include that become the news + things to exclude. Stuart hall: (cid:374)ews has (cid:373)ore to do with what is goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) i(cid:374)side the (cid:374)ewsroo(cid:373) tha(cid:374) what"s going on in the world. Concentration of ownership in the media; smaller + smaller groups controlling larger + larger companies; part of oligopoly. 1958, 3 newspaper chains (thomson, dp, southam) controlled of english news in. By 1970, that became today, rogers owns 53% of channels + magazines. Most ubiquitous; infiltrates other types of media + financially supports them. Product of the 1920s, began as a way to create markets for the hyperproduction that was happening. Advertising produces ads but it really produces fear + i(cid:374)se(cid:272)urity (that there"s so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g wrong with you)
