"Whoever has the greatest influence over a culture's definitions of its symbols and signs also controls the construction of the typification schemes that individuals use to pattern their interactions with their various social worlds."
"Mead believed a baseball team could be regarded as a microcomo of society. Each of us learns many different social roles through interaction with others. Our actions are being subtly "conditioned " by others while we are affecting their actions."
"The primary issue was no longer whether media have certain effects on individuals, but what kind of peope we are, we have become, or we are becoming in our mass mediated world"
"communication is a symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed."
"By reshaping and transforming culture, these works indirectly influence even those who have never read them or even heard of them......mass communication is a process of transmitting messages at a distance for the purpose of control."