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This is a podcast series covering topics in COMM122 taught by Professors Wayne Xu and Martha Fuentes-Bautista at UMass-Amherst. The podcast is hosted by a team of brilliant COMM 122 students and AI-powered robots, and discusses key topics of media industry studies. All content is for educational purposes only and not for public use outside of the setting of COMM122 classroom.
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Hello, Davis here. In this episode, I will continue to bring to you Max, the real human voice behind this episode on media regulation produced in March 2020. Here is Max.
I will bring to you as real human voice, Max, who was a real COMM 122 student. Max made this episode on media regulation in 2020. Here is Max.
As we wrap up the topic of audience research from previous weeks, we will start a new series on media regulations. You are no stranger to media regulations.
This is London!
Commercial Media Mandate? What is it?
We are live from Cape Town, South Africa!
If you reside in the US, just look at things around you, you will notice that many products are NOT produced in the US. Yet, if you look at cinemas, I bet you will find many of the same films currently screened across different cities worldwide. Chances are, they are made in Hollywood.
While technological advances have dramatically cut down the cost of producing multimedia content, Media production remains a high-risk and high-cost business.
We will start with a silly question: How is a movie different from a bucket of popcorn?
A quick chat about “agency.”
Today we explore the question of 'how media produce, and promote fringe ideas or minority viewpoints.' through the concept of counterpublic.
Today Davis will be interviewing Adriana about what she has learned in class about the concept of “dominant ideology” and how media industries play a crucial role in reproducing “the common sense” of our times.
In this episode, our AI host Davis will take you back in history to the roots of this blooming area of communication studies.
In this episode, Davis, your AI host, asks Gabby a few questions about COMM122. Turns out Gabby is not her real name!
Hello, COMM122 Podcast listeners! This week, we will talk about the economic conditions of media production, with a focus on the transformative role of digitalization.First, let’s refresh a point I made earlier in the semester, which is that the media business is a high-risk one. It is expensive to produce content and there is great uncertainty over what is gonna sell. In this week’s classes, Professor Wayne breaks down four types of costs associated with media production.The first cost, Deve...
Hi, welcome back to COMM122 Podcast. Part three on the topic of Media regulations. In this episode, we will discuss regulations targeting media content. The most extreme end of media regulation is censorship. You can check out the recent incident involving South Park in China where the government took down all of its episodes, because the show commented on China’s political situation. Content regulation in the form of outright censorship is quite common in many authoritarian societies, b...
Hey COMM122 podcast listeners, this is Max, Your lovely podcast host. In the previous episode, we discussed four historical regulations targeting the media and communication industry. In the episode today, we are gonna look at some of the most contemporary issues of media regulations. More specifically, we will bring up the issues of net neutrality and cross-ownership. How regulators deal with the issues reflect their regulatory philosophy and ideological leaning. With the seismic chang...
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