Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Computer Industry, Vocus (Software), Culture Industry
11 Jan 2017
School
Department
Professor
Document Summary
Political economy of media deals with the relation between power (politics), wealth (economics) and media. It addresses issues such as: who owns and controls media, how media get revenues and make profits the role of advertising in media the situation of workers (from stars to interns) in media. Everybody on the spectrum: conflicts over intellectual property. Under what conditions? the place of media in the global capitalist economy: how all these factors affect the content of media. Industry could be automobile, pharmaceutical industry, fast food, etc. Do(cid:374)"t (cid:396)ealize that the(cid:396)e is a histo(cid:396)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)se of sig(cid:374)ifi(cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e a(cid:271)out the fa(cid:272)t that we have become used to regarding culture and sense making as an industrial process. The performance that streep is talking about was trump: parodied a journalist when he asked a question (had a disability) Group of german intellectuals- the frankfort school- during nazism 30s and 40s. But also critical of the us culture.
