SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Rogers Communications, Kory Teneycke, Shaw Communications
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In different ways, the movies the truman show, the matrix, and american. Psycho, suggest that the fantasy world created by the mass media are increasingly the only realities we know, and they are as pervasive and influential as religion was 500 or 600 years ago. The average canadian spends more than 3 hrs a day watching television, over 2. 5 hrs listening to the radio, and just under an hour reading magazines, newspapers and books. Much of our reality is media generated. It is perhaps equally valid to claim that the human body and mind are extensions of the mass media. Mass media are print, radio, television, and other communication technologies. The word mass implies that the media reach many people. The word media signifies that communication does not take place directly through face-to-face interaction. Often, mass media and mass communication are used interchangeably to refer to the transmission of information from one person or group to another.
