SOC279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reality Television, Christian Marclay, Raymond Williams
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A medium directly shapes the (cid:1684)scale(cid:1685), (cid:1684)pace(cid:1685) & (cid:1684)pattern(cid:1685) of human affairs. Electronic societies are global villages where temporal and spatial boundaries blur and all our senses are engaged. * shifted attention away from colors, boxes, rules, pictures, and different sizes and styles of fonts can make your presentation more clear and meaningful. content (message) to form (medium) * (cid:1684)whether optimistic or pessimistic digital communication is misrepresented as being at the centre of society as the principal factor of social change and that we all orient our lives around it (cid:1685). * raymond williams: drama & tv critic, socialist & sociologist 1921-1988. To explore how media and society are related in the scot(social construction of technology) approach and to understand williams(cid:1685) work as linked to this tradition. To consider his claims that media are not just technological, but social products. To assess if he provides an alternative approach to media which is not deterministic.
