WAR OF THE WORLDS
- martians invading new Jersey
- broadcast as radio was just coming about – broadcast on the eve of WW2 fears about invasions
- radio play drama
- CBC – commercial company – governed by the broadcasting act 1991 – owned and controlled by canadians, english and french
- part of a conglomerate
- fake news
- chomsky 5 filters FRAMING people believed it manufacturing consent
- stuart hall – theory of preferred reading
- Dennis McQuail – BOOK – “mass media in the public interest” – habermas talks about the public sphere containing info allowing businesses to communicate with consumers “public and private world where opinions can be formed”
- shirky – audience is changing – passive to active, as technology advances more people can participate
- Lazerfeld – “two step flow communication”
- hesmondhalgh – risky business
- “the cultural industries constitute a particularly risky business“
- “audience tastes continuously adapt making it difficult to produce material that guarantees satisfaction” (radio new so people didn’t know what to make of it)
- consumer regulation – creating diversity in the media industry by creating radio
- citizen regulation – social needs – PSB
LIFE HACKS