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Transcript of Mass Media irfan erdogan 2013 Copyright © 2012 irfan erdogan all rights reserved.
. mass media are organizations in certain political, economic, cultural and social arrangements and goals.
It means production of interrelated technological tools for mass communication.
Let’s give some examples
For example, production of tools for radio broadcasting include, . production of tape machines, microphones, devices that digitize sound waves.. production of transmitters that disseminate them, . Production of receiving units that decode the sound waves.
It means the organization of specific institutions such as radio networks, television stations, movie companies, music production firms
It means . Property right in mass media. Establishment of legal rights of ownership. Creation of material values and conditions of sharing (distribution of wealth created by media)
let’s give examples for the each one
It means establishment and exercise of organized practices of media production such as newspapers,
magazines, television programs,radio programs, films, multimedia and
Web sites.
It meansdeciding on conditions and nature of producing mass communication
deciding on how and what to produce, types of production, amount of production, quality of production, frequency of production
How to produce refers to. organization of media content production (iş bölümü). Decidin on the nature of media practices: media professionalism and professional ideologices
It means establishing means of distribution of media products.
Let’s explain means of distribution of books? Newspapers? Ads?
1. Getting informed?2. Learning?3. Leisure time activity?4. Entertainment?5. Agenda making?6. Socialisation?7. What else?
In sum:when we talk about mass
media, we are talking about technologically mediated
communication that is
a. Produced by media professionals who use media to
produce and disseminate certain content widely, rapidly,
and continuously
Production and producers:
a. Product production by media professionals is done within an
organizational setting.
Who are media professionals?
Production and producers:
b. Professionals are, for instance, news reporters, journalists, television producers and magazine editors.
Production and producers:
c. Production is done by more than one professional . For example, producers, writers, actors, directors and video editors; publishers, reporters, editors, copyeditors, typesetters, graphic designers and photographers.
Products of Mass media
1. Media products in terms of produced units are outputs of the media such as news reports, novels, movies, television programs, magazine articles, newspaper columns, music videos, and ads. They are carriers of content of a deliberate communication
Products of Mass media
2. Media products in terms of content of produced units are called
messages
For example, a tv program is a product that carries messages.
Products of Mass media
3. Media messages are to produce
certain ideas, thoughts, beliefs,
expectations, behaviors, customers,
viewers, readers, users
Voters, followers, fans, enemies,
friends, us and them etc.
Is main goal to produce
meaining or thought and
behavior management via
production of certain meaning?
Why do we never see ads or media
messages indicating that cigaret
companies are resposible for the
dead of over 20 million people on
earth?
Meanings are produced by people in actual relations by using language .
Language is the primary means of production of meaning.
Existence of realities like water, air, mountain, moon, sun are not created by the language: They exist outside the language.
Some realities in our minds are shaped by those people who shape our world and our minds by using language and creating images of reality. Some images are false, but we believe that they are not.
Su veya dağ veya taş kavramları olmasaydı, su, dağ veya taş olmaz mıydı? Su veya water kendini mi yaratmakta yoksa var olanı isimlendirmekte mi?
Products of Mass media
4. Creation of people with certain
ideas, beliefs, and expectations are
shaped and expected to behave in
certain way: Then, another product
is the audience
One of the ultimate products of
mass media are individuals with
certain ideas, opinions, attitudes,
expectations, choices, likes and
dislikes, tastes, political
orientations and consumption
behaviors.
Audience as actor and product
Media audience are considered as:1. Heterogeneous (both large, diverse groups of
people with dissimilar background, demographics, and socio-political characteristics)
2. For some scholars, they are active3. For some scholars, they are passive4. For others, they are active under
predetermined dominant conditions.
Feedback can be. Cultivated thinking: creating or susaining an idea, belief and attitude in order to make people act in a certain way when the time comes. Immediate and latent decision making and acting.
let’s give examples
Prevailing opinions on feedback:1. Feedback is presented as feedback to media. 2. Feedback is minimal in mass media, and no real give-and-take is practically possible. 3. Message flow typically is one-way, from source to receiver. A newspaper reader could write a letter to the editor; a television viewer could call the station. Let’s think about them
Let’s find out how feedback works:
Think of people watching tv: What happens during and after watching?
1. in terms of mental processes (self communication)?
Think of people watching tv: What happens during and after watching?
2. In terms of interpersonal communication during the exposure and afterwards?
Then, feedbacks that are expected by the mass media professionals include:1. to view again (audience)2. to acquire certain ideas, attitudes etc. (audience and about audience)3. to reproduce the media agenda for daily social relations 4. to employ relational pressures to others5. To act and force others to act according to media induced ways in buying and consuming.
Week 4What media for
Construction of social, economic, political and cultural reality via
news and entertainment
Why mass media?İf communication is necessary condition of survival, maintenance and change, then what is mass media for?
Why mass media?İf communication is necessary condition of survival, maintenance and change, then what is mass media for?
What kind of reality constructed
here: What kind of solution is
presented for what kind of
problem/issue?
1. My brief presentation on
Development of carriers and recorders of communication, size, capacity, durability etc
Let’s discuss followings:
early press:Newspapers served specialized public, they were NOT mass media.Although some papers were supported by advertising, cost of newspapers was out of reach of the average citizen.Early papers did participate in political dissent, and encouraged political participation of elite classes.
yellow journalism in USA tendency toward
sensational journalism emphasized in competitive structure
How about in Turkey?
Some of Today’s foreign magazines in Turkey (See: My Kültür ve iletişim book) Ladies' Home Journal Family Circle Woman's Day Time People Playboy Sports Illustrated Newsweek
Four Important Periods in the early History of the Book
I. 7th to 13th Century: The age of religious "manuscript" book production.
II. 13th to 15th Century: The secularization of book production.
III. 15th to 16th Century: The first printed books. IV. 16th to 17th Century: New information is put into
books that has important consequences for European life
Table 2.1 Types of BooksType Description
Trade Includes literature, biography, and all fiction and nonfiction books for general reading. These books are usually handled by retail bookstores.
Textbooks Includes books for elementary and high schools, colleges and universities. These books are usually sold through educational institutions or college bookstores, but publishers make their sales pitches to state or local school boards or faculty members.
Children’s Sold through bookstores or to schools and libraries.
Reference Includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and similar books. These require long and expensive preparation.
Technical & Includes manuals, original research, and technical reports. Scientific
Law Involves the codification of legal materials and constant updating.
Medical Also requires frequent updating.
Source: Smith, Guide to Book Publishing, pp. 128-129. Used by permission of University of Washington Press.
2. group presentation and discussion topic:Development of mass media: from words to symbols; from verbal tradition to printed tradition. Emergence of printing press. Development of press (books, newspapers, magazines) in Turkey
Week 6
This week will include
1. My brief presentation2. Group presentation
Counter group discussion
Group presentationCounter group discussion topic:
Recording the voice and image; from gramophone, tape to CD; from mechanical to analog and digital recording.