CMNS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Home Cinema, Consumerism, White Flight
27 Oct 2017
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Television became a common domestic technology, a shaper of atmosphere. Car, highway, suburbs, gi bills, america dream: create different meaning of consumerism, need more things, shopping, gender spaces (men work, women and children at home, creation of shopping mall, keep you contain but not make you feel trapped. White flight, the anxiety around diversity, around uncontrollable of modern space: people in colour to practice the america dream, form of segregation, keep out outsiders. Cars: mobile domestic spaces, take mediated relationship to the outside world: private space on public display, mobile telecommunication technologies: mobile privatization. Living room become a safe place to connect to the outside world, privacy in public life: allows us to participate without actual interaction, being constantly presence. Home theatre, smart tv: not trapped in the environment, the entire world is immediately accessible. Mobility of television, take television outside of the home: from taking public world to private space (tv) to taking private space to public world (phone)
