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Issues in Media Studies - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Consumer culture
        
        The symbol systems surrounding products or commodities are created to instill desire among consumers.
      - Advertising
        
        Advertising shapes the behavior and lifestyle of almost everyone living in a developed capitalist society
        
        Most companies build awareness of brand related concepts, lifestyles and attitudes.
    - - Play’s the thing
        
        Social impact in the case of YouTube
        
        Band and music promotion
        
        Internet celebrities
        
        Viral Videos and YouTube
      - Videogames
      - Social Media
        
        Social Networking Sites
        
        Virtual Game Worlds and Virtual Social Worlds
        
        Content Communities
        
        Social Media and Democracy
        
        Collaborative Projects
        
        Blogs
      - Music
      - Life: The act.
  - - - Alternative media usually arise in opposition to something such as a dominant ideology like capitalism or a so-called “normal” social practice like heterosexual marriage.
      - How disconnected we can become from our own communities because we aren’t paying attention to what’s going on right in our neighborhoods.
      - With today’s personal media, more and more people are in the position to act as journalists—to give and receive news that was not filtered through a corporation or edited by a publisher.
    - - Part 2-7: News and Canadian politics
        
        News is regarded as an important factor of national status, which is closely related to governance.
      - Part 2-6: The CBC.
      - Part 2-5: The business of news
        
        Media concentration in the hands of a few limits the public discussion to the interests of fewer and fewer people.
      - Part 2-4: Qualities and functions of the news
        
        The “gatekeeping” and “agenda-setting” power of the press helps determine what topics are important in people minds.
      - Part 2-3: Circulation
        
        Each news medium will adapt their presentation of news to attract audiences.
        
        Each new medium of communication alters the roles that the previous media play in society.
      - Part 2-2: The content of news
        
        "Guides for living"
        
        Human interest stories
        
        Wars and crimes
        
        Business news
      - Part 2-1: The human need for news
        
        he deep-seated human need for news may stem from the survival need to understand the natural and social environment.
        
        Humans have an innate need to know what is going on in their societies and in their environments
- - - - Media structure our relationships
      - Media messages shape how we think of ourselves
      - Media help us construct ourselves as individuals
      - Media ecologies shape our communities
- - - - Home-grown Canadian humour is often at the expense of the U.S., and it is used as a way to remind ourselves that we aren’t just an extension of America.
    - - Hockey
    - - Along with media products, Canadians may receive values, beliefs and attitudes from the Americans.
    - - Canadians are diverging from American world views rather than merging with them.
  - - - Topics of ethics in the media range from accountability (free expression versus need to know), objectivity, accuracy, fairness and privacy.
    - - How we choose to use our media in the future has global impact.
    - - Surveillance and Power
        
        Central to the issue of surveillance is that of power.
      - Surveillance and Big Data
        
        Governments and corporations control huge databanks of information about us.
      - The Media Ecology of Surveillance
        
        The evolution of communication or media technologies impact the evolution of human society, and vice versa.
      - Surveillance Technologies: Tools for the Marginalised?
        
        New forms of surveillance technologies empower the marginalized.
      - Surveillance and Social Control
        
        The evolution of communication technologies has expanded the possibilities and scope of surveillance, as well as who can engage in surveillance.
    - - Each new medium further changes our relationships with the ones we care about.
    - - Ethics has historically been based on one’s geographical community.
  - - - The media and violence and the impact they have in Canada
      - The normalization of media violence against women
    - - Erotica may be offensive to some and not to others.
      - In practice there is never totally free speech for that would allow for slander, libel and perpetuation of hate speech.
    - - Media themselves, as links between people, affect the way people interact.
    - - Although moral panic is not the intention of media coverage of crime and violence, the structures of the media—including their reliance on advertising, their requirement for increased circulation or audience numbers and their surface rather than substance reporting—create the circumstances for this public opinion byproduct.
      - In response to these moral panics, societies tend to see more gated communities that separate the wealthy from the poor, greater surveillance of personal activities, increased border protection and general xenophobia (an unreasonable fear or hatred of that which is foreign or strange).
- - - - The development of a nation is often measured by its level of communication technology.
    - - A global marketplace means that jobs are rarely as secure as they once were.
      - Our psychic lives have been affected by the pace conditioned by our media.
      - Because our economies are all tied together through electronic media, a change in one economy can have rapid ripple effects throughout the entire world economy.
    - - With each new invention, consumers and producers had more information about market conditions.
      - The entire economy has been restructured by every new medium.
      - Every economy depends on communication.