Before this lecture, I don’t think I really understood what media institutions were, but some examples are:

•ABC •The News •Journalism •Newscorp •Cinema •Broadcast Television •Community Radio •Public Service Broadcasting •RRR.

Media Institutions – Some ways of thinking about this term term from sociology concern with organising structures of society Social, cultural, political, economic relations Principles, values, rules that underly these. Individuals can struggle under constraints imposed by institutions. Types of institutions include police education, government. Marriage (social institution): cultural Expectations Forms a part of a cultural narrative. Institutions have historical continuities. Ie The Church.

Even after this lecture I still don’t really understand what media institutions are.