CMNS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Consumer Sovereignty, Raymond Williams, Propaganda In The Soviet Union
12 Sep 2016
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Last week"s lecture recap: we examined pluralist-democratize perspective on mass media, one that dates back to the emergence of the first democratic state. It came out on top when early important decisions had to be made about the early canadian broadcasting system. Many corps and services wanted a private, commercialized broadcasting corp. Public: owned and controlled by the people of the country (ex: cbc). Private broadcasting: when an outlet is owned by an individual, or by shareholders (ex: ctv). Raymond williams" suggestion how institutions and cultures are either dominate, emergent, or residual. This can be used to see how social change happens (not one day to the next, but rather over time). Ideas of freedom of the press went from emergent to dominant (they were written into the very constitutions of democratic states). Habermas" idea of the public sphere: the domain in our social life where such a thing as a public opinion can be formed.
