The Reality of the Mass Media
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...(Luhmann 2000, 1) Luhmann’s wording can be regarded as symptomatic: When sociologists talk of media they always seem to refer to ‘mass media’....
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...According to Luhmann (2000), media does not only represent shared social realities, but it can produce and influence the public's notion of reality....
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...While they always had to make assumptions about which audiences they were addressing (Luhmann, 2000: 4), the new media ecology dramatically reduces the accuracy of these assumptions....
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...The researcher believes that it is for this reason that a theory of society which can explain everything, including the system of mass media communications, is required more than simply a theory of mass media evolution and globalization [19]....
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