SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reality Television, Tvontario, Canadian Content
17 Mar 2016
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How who owns the media affects what"s in the media. Porn: might seem weird, but porn is a huge industry, it is deemed that 8 hrs of porn should be canadian porn. Private: very specific ideas in what they are invested in, but mostly invested in making money. Independent ownership: now a minority, very little of the media we consume is independently owned. Canada"s distribution market is controlled by companies that create content. Cross ownership: owning any type of media in a market e. g owning newspapers and tv channels results in cross advertising. The global sharing of human and natural resources. Neo liberalism led to media conglomerates, 90% of largest media conglomerates were americans, see how this ushers in american imperialism, rise of media empires, and see changes in production of media. Disney got into huge trouble because of how innocence, magic they display, yet the toys are made with use of child labor.
