Institution Notes

• Types of Institution - Home, Family
• We think of journalists a sharing same sets of values as their newspaper
• Newspapers - Powerful than us
• As global patterns of ownership change, so does the concept of institution
• Media ownership is in the hands of just a few companies
• Disney - Conglomerate
• Disney own - ABC, History, ESP, All Disney Channels, Parks, Characters etc and Touchstone Pictures
• Understanding Institution is about understanding - who produces media texts, what their set of codes and values is and their relationship to us as individuals
• Major conglomerates - Disney, Sony, Time Warner, News Corporation, Viacom and Universal Studios