CMN 1160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Canadian Newspaper Association, Digital Divide, Canadian Media Guild

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

Traditional media, new media, and social media are illustrated to be forms of mass communication. Media help bind canadians together with common ideas and understandings of our culture. Helps construct & feed our conceptions about canada & what it means to be canadian. Government (federal, provincial, municipal) use media to connect with citizens. Central vehicle for controlling the world economy & movement of goods & services around the world. Introduce people to different culture & keep immigrants in touch with home country. Creates global cultural consciousness = coverage of world economics & politics & mass sports & tragedies & global warming. The telegraph - world"s first mode of communication - one of the most revolutionary & fastest (back then) (no longer the need for transportation (horse, ship ) to pass messages). Helped to create other changes = standard time zones & modern markets. Idea of telephone leaned heavily on earlier inventions = speaking tube.