In todays lecture Brian spoke about institutions.
What is an institution?
An institution is an organization founded for a religious, educational, professional, or social purpose, or an established law or practice.
Some notes:
Institutions
- Term from sociology
- Concern with organising structures of society
- Social, cultural, political, economic relations
- Principles, values, rules that underly these
‘Marriage’ as a social institution
- Expectations
- Legal contract
- Meta-institutional frame
- Widely accepted and practiced
- Cultural ‘rules’
- Invested in
- Rituals
Media institutions
- Are enduring
- Regulate and structure activities
- Are “collectivist”
- Develop working practices
- Employees and people associated are expected to share values
- Public is aware of the status
We then got into groupds to brainstorm the institutional characteristics of the following – there were four: facebook, newscorp, google and community media. We got given community media. Here is our brainstorm:
