Course Description

Media, Information and Technoculture 135F/G Analysing Broadcast News: Canadian Perspectives on Global Broadcast Media

This course focuses on the global broadcast media from a Canadian perspective, with emphasis on information broadcasting and the social and political controls which govern the broadcast media in Canada. Topics covered include the cultural role of broadcasting; broadcasting as an instrument in the nationalist agenda; the relation of broadcast media to government; the news as information or entertainment; and the impact of new technologies on electronic journalism.

Antirequisite: Media, Information and Technoculture 235F/G

3 lecture hours, half course.

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