Osgood-Schramm model of mass communication. Creating shared meaning between the mass media and their audiences
Fox: game show announcer in trouble
CBS
In a capitalist system, private individuals and businesses own the means of production, rather than the government.
Politicians denounce socialism
China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-vote-condemns-socialism-supports-save-act/
- Protests in Texas over voting changes
A culture’s values and beliefs reside in the stories it tells.
Celebrity
Charlie Kirk (Tyler Robinson)
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Tupac
https://abcnews.com/US/elated-relieved-tupacs-family-reacts-guilty-verdict/story?id=136110396
1959 Mattel Barbie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8-avPUxyno
1960 – 1968: Tiny Tears doll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVmAchyA9Hk
1978 Stretch Armstrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBRBaEXsrJE
African-American dolls representing real women
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v6LwTLDyT2I
- GI Joe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRnXYV2eA7w
Refrigerator Perry, 1987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JHjwtq97rE
Mattel: 2016 Barbie. 2023
[a] is a 2023 satirical fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Margot Robbie as the title character and Ryan Gosling as Ken,
2025
KPop Demon Hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZUKI1q2RE0
The Gutenberg Population
Movable Metal type
Intended for Bibles. Literacy rates very low. Soldiers, monks, royalty
Unintended consequence: for hundreds of year, books became the medium
https://study.com/academy/lesson/video/johannes-gutenberg-inventions-facts-accomplishments.html
Media Literacy
Resisting Hoaxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Fi6g0p_Eo
- A real threat confined and controlled
Y2K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GON13xlaMfc
2025-2026. Misinformation abounds
https://www.pbs.org/video/spreading-misinformation-1750279026/