Week 10 – Lectorial

Today’s lectorial was on the topic of Institutions – what are institutions, who uses them and the practices that shape them.

Some key points I took away from this lectorial is that:

• Values are created by institutions and exclusive to that specific institution.
• Institutions are expected to deliver to their audiences the information that they have been trusted to produce.
• Institutions are made up of a body of people with the same objectives, goals and values to produce work that is reflective of this.

As a group, we went off and thought of different media institutions and attempted to de-construct what they’re all about. My group mutually agreed that Facebook was the most relateable one to us, as it’s such a prevalent institution. We established that the point of Facebook was to connect people, and noted how other social-media platforms link through Facebook (think instagram; when you upload a photo and it automatically feeds through Facey). Facebook regulates itself through its T&C’s and uses these to establish trusts with it’s users.