Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Max Horkheimer, Cloud Computing, Big Data

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G
• Professor: Nick Dyer- Witheford

Document Summary

Mit 2100- introduction to political economy of media. Political economy of media deals with who owns and controls media Deals with the relation between power (politics), wealth (economics) and media. Corporate political economy is concerned with issues of ownership, organization, production, advertising and labour to figure out how to make bigger profits, monetizing media content. Critical political economy: is concerned with all these issues to but with the aim of reforming (reducing inequalities and ecological devastation) or revolution replacement by another system. * you can come from either direction converging on the types of topics but that is what makes it interesting. * the frankfort school aka critical theory (theodore adorno, max horkheimer, the culture industry. * how the capitalist system (cultural aspect plays a huge role in how we are habituated to live in a society revolving around commodity trading etc)