CMN 4115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: North American Free Trade Agreement, Alternative Culture, Plutocracy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 4115
• Professor: Michael Strangelove

Document Summary

Public broadcasting was brought about in the early part of the 20th century. Started with radio it was a product of a particular institution, the nation state, the modern nation. The nation state has interest of its own and then dilemmas are created in perusing those interests. A nation doesn"t occur, a nation is created. A nation state as how we imagine it. The state is military, govt. , post office, institution, justice system, etc the power flows through those institutions. The nation is where we see ourselves are individuals, as citizens. The nation is the imaginary thing we see our self instituting in. The dilemma of nation state is that it needs our compliance. The two fundamental requirements of the citizen what"s required of us is to pay our taxes. There"s a general requirement of abiding with the laws and to go to the war when required.