CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Harold Lasswell, Mass Media, Depersonalization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Aliaa Dakroury

Document Summary

Lecture 2 - media our windows to the world. functionalist approach to the mass media harold lasswell and charles. Roles and functions that mass media has set up for the society. Four functions: surveillance of the social environment - mass media warns us about unexpected dangerswars, weather conditions. Gives more info about day to day events and news. If we have too much info we might have panic (overreaction) We are over dependent on mass media for info: the correlation of the parts of society in responding to the environment. Media as entities are selecting and interpreting info for us about what is happening in our social environment. Media in this situation can act as a tool for criticism, to criticize governmentvoice out opinion as public, etc. It should be reflecting our hopes and opinions. Dis-function - pseudo events (i. e. a man-made event)by daniel j. Boorstin - manufacture of images and personalities by the media.