Media, Information and Technoculture 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Raymond Williams
17 Dec 2016
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He compared it to the state-sponsored art of the soviet union and other socialist/communist. Mit october 26th lecure advertising: the propaganda of capitalism? (first part of the note in mit notebook) Propaganda: media content associated with authoritarian states, mind control on populations, used in wartime by governments etc. states whose most common form of public art we derisively term propaganda. From that point of view, someone from outside our society looking at advertising might call advertising capitalist propaganda. Advertising is the (cid:498)official art of modern capitalist society(cid:499)- raymond williams. Type of advertising is also changing used to be print in newspapers 100 years ago around (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:886)(cid:890) became broadcast media (cid:883)(cid:891)(cid:891)(cid:888) introduced a lot of television etc. Average ad spending per capita in the usa is the highest (for 2014) at . Digital media is becoming increasingly close to being the same as television media. Creates its own specific forms of media e. g. billboards, promotional displays, branding packaging.
