CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Horizontal Integration, Vertical Integration, Transmedia Storytelling
11 Oct 2016
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Study on how scary movies affect children (1920s-30s) this distinction, though ubiquitous, is not accurate or useful. Critical work can be empirical and still draw on theory. Critical work can focus on specific issues even for specific institutions. When media companies specializing in different forms of media come together to take advantage of presumed synergies enabled by digitization/digital content. Time warner) integrate smaller companies (ie aol) in order to use their tech to spread their media. Concentration and convergence are more specific and importantly for our purposes, more critical terms. Marketplace of ideas competition of ideas eventually leads to good ideas/knowledge. Eighth largest in world, just behind italy and ahead of south. There is public media in canada and private media. Public media is a big business (ads on tv, commissioning content, central to entire ecosystem) Small handful of companies control almost all private media in canada. Bel media - operates 58 television services including ctv.
