CMNS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: North Region, Brazil, Cultural Imperialism, Bourgeoisie
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The internet, web 2. 0, and the surveillance society. Moving forward, pay attention to the am as to the mainstream media. The growing connection between forms of technology and forms of political power helpful for course themes (transition between the masses and the network) Numerical language of control mark access to information, no longer mass/individual, but individuals have become dividuals aka masses. - gilles deleuze, postscript on the. Old binary of masses/individuals, individuals have become flows of information and just parts of databases. In result, the way that we access the world is now through the digital technology. Who we are is the information that is captured from us, and the information that we are able to access. Sad, deleuze saw a shift towards a dystopian society. Today we are comparing new media to the models of mass communication he looked at so far. In the first two thirds of the course, we looked at the emergence of the mass media system.