1. Types of Media Systems • Western Media System • Revolutionary Media System • Communist Media System • Developmental Media System • Authoritarian Media System

2. Western Media System • Media privately owned • Privately supported (advertising) • Free flow of ideas/diversity of views • Free of government control • Rarest form of media existing where... • Press is 4th estate

3. Western Media System • Common law protects individuals • High income, literacy, education • Multi-party democracy • Tradition of independent journalism

4. Problems in Western Media • Profit-making emphasis • Concentration of ownership

5. Revolutionary Media • Illegal/subversive • Used to overthrow • “Underground” • Short term • People at odds with government • Alternative forms

6. Communist Media • Owned and controlled by state • Instrument of rule • Goal is nation-building • “News” is what’s important to state • Originally a revolutionary tool

7. Lenin on communist media “…free press gives freedom to oppress, deceive and exploit the masses…”

8. Developmental Media • The goal is nation-building • Explain to people their role in the new social order • Temporary • No freedom of expression • Top - down flow of information

9. Authoritarian Media • Oldest form of media • Press supports the state • Top - down flow of information • Ruler decides what is published • Maintain status quo • Evolved into Communist & Developmental

10. Political infrastructures • 1st world: Industrialized • 2nd world: Communist • 3rd world: Undeveloped

11. News • How is it defined? • What is its role/function? • What is the content?

12. Role of the Media • Autonomous? • Ancillary?

13. Relationship to government • 1st world: Press independent • 2nd world: Press under control • 3rd world: Press mobilized to aid development

14. The Global Village • Cultural homogenization • Homogenization of language • The Instantaneous transmission of news: What is its impact?

15. Media Imperialism • The one-way flow of information to developing nations. • The imposition of western culture and values on developing nations. • Hegemony

16. U. S. Provincialism • We don’t look outside our boundaries, unless…