CMNS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eiffel Tower, Consumerism, Old Media
17 Oct 2016
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Life in the fast lane digital culture and the accelerated pace of change. Enhancement, expansion, elaboration of understandings of the media environment. Research approaches and perspectives in the analysis of new and emerging media and communication. Understanding communication as a foundation for social change. All tech is an extension of human capacity. Can popular culture is democratizing bringing us all into a common culture accessing information giving us an idea of the world around us. Popular culture breaking the monopoly of power. Old media is no longer relevant in its content to pace yet there is a triumph. Department store in consumerism complex domestication of the traditional market (people often negotiate prices in certain parts of the world) Domestication in the market place in verbal exchange. To kill the thought of bargaining they created a transcendent of architecture. Emergence and ideology of of consumerism to create an experience in department stores: holt, nordstrom, etc.
