CMNS 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-4: Mass Society, Pejorative, Sound Recording And Reproduction

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 130
• Professor: Piotrowski

Document Summary

Cmns 130 study questions for week 2. Great reach and apparent impact; media was important during ww2, especially as propaganda. Spread ideas + influence to the people it reached. 2. a) moral panic: negative perception of media; especially the inclination to link media portrayals of crime, sex, violence w/ seeming increase in social and moral disorder. Based on little evidence either of media cause of actual effect. Composed of a large aggregate of people. Non-interactive and anonymous relation to each other. An object of management or manipulation by media. Main purpose is to advance on interest of opinion or achieve political change. Often consists of better informed section of population. Cultured products made only for mass marker. Diverse mix of stories, images, information, ideas, entertainment. Typically lower-class , gives way to term pop culture . Underlying view + characteristics of society in dominant paradigm .