COMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Challenger, Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, Collective Unconscious
5 Sep 2016
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How different mediums circulate in different media economies. Platforms allow people to view various media broadcastings. Shift from singular images, to images everywhere. Contemporary communication networks are re exive contemp. networks are re exive, we can both create and produce content. Automatic communication, as it repeats becomes attached to a feeling or sentiment. There is an affect of communication, a drive. Ex. a like on facebook has the power to give us enjoyment. Affect and experience of communication is important. 2013 was the height of when people were outraged about funeral sel es. Media as things that come in between are liminal objects par excellence and they don"t only deal with information, but also love, birth, death and sex. Funeral sel e brings up questions: shifting and changing world in various ways because of contemporary culture. Central role that death plays avert our eyes as we fear the dwelling on the corpse (peters)
