VCC101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Real News, Psychological Warfare, Situationist International
28 Feb 2017
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Assignment 2 notes due today (optional) extra credit #1 is due today. Trump revokes law, bans new channels, proclaims fake news . We focus on what we think is most relevant to us. Video: top ten viral youtube videos of 2016. All more likely to know about quirky than news. Mass media: media forms designed to reach large audiences perceived to have shared interests. Imagined communities: nation is imagined because even in a small nation, members don"t know their fellow-members. Walter benjamin (1892-1940): aura, cult value, exhibition value. Seminal figure for visual culture studies, among the first to turn a critical lens on mass culture [1920-1930: he wrote in germany] Make images available to everyone (the masses) Russian revolution and civil war (rise of communism and fascism) Use new media for propaganda hitler was chancellor of germany. Theodor adorno (member of the frankfurt school), 1903-1969 flee to us.
