Mass Media Canon
Mass Media Canon
In today’s society people’s perceptions on subjects are mostly driven and influenced by the media. The things that people believe can be skewed into ways that others want them to think. This is very easily done with news programs now, with data being submitted nationally. When one only looks at one news source, they are getting fed what those news reporters deem necessary for the public to hear. They don’t hear other sides, or possibly even what is happening. This can be seen as a ‘canon’ of social media, only guiding people to things that a select few believe in.
Joey Sprague offers that this kind of thing happens in social theory as well. She says that social theory is biased towards old white men. In this she means that older white males, never any others, think of most social theory that is viewed by the masses. There isn’t a feminist perspective in the mix of what is thought of for social thought. It is canonized towards just those few greats. Connell says that it is based on Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. You will always be able to find these men, and what they believed in, in the first parts of any textbook.
This social canon can be seen in this picture brought to you by CNN. It shows that depending on how a picture is made to look, the way it is perceived is totally different. It can be cropped to show different sides of events that someone would want you to see. You don’t get the broader aspect, or even the whole of what is happening. You are only shown bits and pieces. Sprague says that to get a real understanding of what is going on people must observe at a micro level, and use the diversity of their standpoint to view the world, not what they are being fed by the moguls of society.
Everything is looked at in a macro perspective in the media, not how the sociological feminists see it, in a micro, or person-to-person perspective. The mass media cannot have a personal relationship with every person so it is based to the broad views of society. This is more like what Marx, Weber and Durkheim were talking about, society as a whole. Marx and Weber were very into the politics of their time and went off of what was happening in society, whereas others created their own ideas and perceptions on society and developed upon those. TV shows base themselves on the whole party’s views and cannot account for each individual’s standpoint. The standpoints of most of the news shows are more biased towards money earning “old men”, than people that would stay at home and perform “womanly” duties. Each person cannot base their views off of what the programs say because their religion,
The same thing can be shown with the media’s influence on politics. People’s standpoints are sometimes influenced through the mass media, with things such as their religion and what to believe and vote for in politics. People can be made to believe that a candidate for president is the right choice, or not even be given the full details on why they should be voting for or against the person. People like Stephen Colbert have great influences on people’s views, just like Marx, Durkheim, and Weber do in Sociology. They are seen this way just because they are most commonly viewed and have larger names in their fields. This is like Sprague was saying in her work, that most people are influenced by a narrow spectrum of old white men.
Mass Media Canon
In today’s society people’s perceptions on subjects are mostly driven and influenced by the media. The things that people believe can be skewed into ways that others want them to think. This is very easily done with news programs now, with data being submitted nationally. When one only looks at one news source, they are getting fed what those news reporters deem necessary for the public to hear. They don’t hear other sides, or possibly even what is happening. This can be seen as a ‘canon’ of social media, only guiding people to things that a select few believe in.
Joey Sprague offers that this kind of thing happens in social theory as well. She says that social theory is biased towards old white men. In this she means that older white males, never any others, think of most social theory that is viewed by the masses. There isn’t a feminist perspective in the mix of what is thought of for social thought. It is canonized towards just those few greats. Connell says that it is based on Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. You will always be able to find these men, and what they believed in, in the first parts of any textbook.
This social canon can be seen in this picture brought to you by CNN. It shows that depending on how a picture is made to look, the way it is perceived is totally different. It can be cropped to show different sides of events that someone would want you to see. You don’t get the broader aspect, or even the whole of what is happening. You are only shown bits and pieces. Sprague says that to get a real understanding of what is going on people must observe at a micro level, and use the diversity of their standpoint to view the world, not what they are being fed by the moguls of society.
Everything is looked at in a macro perspective in the media, not how the sociological feminists see it, in a micro, or person-to-person perspective. The mass media cannot have a personal relationship with every person so it is based to the broad views of society. This is more like what Marx, Weber and Durkheim were talking about, society as a whole. Marx and Weber were very into the politics of their time and went off of what was happening in society, whereas others created their own ideas and perceptions on society and developed upon those. TV shows base themselves on the whole party’s views and cannot account for each individual’s standpoint. The standpoints of most of the news shows are more biased towards money earning “old men”, than people that would stay at home and perform “womanly” duties. Each person cannot base their views off of what the programs say because their religion,
The same thing can be shown with the media’s influence on politics. People’s standpoints are sometimes influenced through the mass media, with things such as their religion and what to believe and vote for in politics. People can be made to believe that a candidate for president is the right choice, or not even be given the full details on why they should be voting for or against the person. People like Stephen Colbert have great influences on people’s views, just like Marx, Durkheim, and Weber do in Sociology. They are seen this way just because they are most commonly viewed and have larger names in their fields. This is like Sprague was saying in her work, that most people are influenced by a narrow spectrum of old white men.