COMS 3411 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Adbusters, Social Inequality, Network Society
19 Sep 2018
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Wall streeter: aggressive, intimidating, powerful (symbolizes a bull) Occupy wall street was to protest peacefully against wall street. Adbuster"s image depicts ballerina balancing on bull, symbolizing the protest/ low class, middle class rising up against wall streeters while a financial war is going on. Their demand was for a corporate democracy. When obama was in office, he appointed the same people that were causing these financial problems, and he built up the banks, taking control out of the individual into the hands of the banker. (social inequality) Castells: power is exercised by means of coercion. Its an act of persuading people through intimidation. Government expresses this type of power through things like passing laws. Castells argues that the network society is different than the other societies. Power comes from owning land, from knowing things before others do,
