CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dominant Ideology, Hypodermic Needle

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: David Smith

Document Summary

A leaderless movement: multitude a set of singularities based on practices of self-determination and the common. Communication is the production of meaning through the exchange of information. Communication technologies and the messages we exchange through them are never politically neutral with respect to power. Communication political even if you don"t understand it. Social movements themselves are rooted in injustice, unequal power. So what does power refer to: monopoly, if everyone has power no one has power, mutually exclusive. Conceptualization of power based on domination (single social actor has all of the power) Always counter power with power, ability of receiver to decode. Look at any of videos and find out what to make of it: structure/agency. Structure made from other socially constrained, leaving the room example, structure also what gives you the ability to have agency, form structure and agency through co constitution: co-constitution. Dominant ideology, dominant idea, dominant discourse: discourse.