ENGL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Product Placement, Covergirl

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1200
• Professor: Paul Salmon

Document Summary

Advances in communication has always gone hand in hand with advances in technology. The media itself has become a very discussed product within media: self-relexive. Record players: return of traditional music players. Evolution of our idea of a telephone. Media is so saturating in our environment it feels sometimes as though it has power over us rather than us controlling it. Advertisers using a vast array of social media: product placement in movies, ads before movies, pop-up adds, sites that shouldn"t be free are because of the amount of adds that they use, twitter/facebook/instagram etc. Media and news choosing to self sensor due to people"s sensitivity: replaying plane footage on the anniversary of 9/11. The relationship between reading, writing, and critical thinking. The relationship between our contemporary lives and the contemporary world. How do we deine the contemporary: one argument is that it is the beginning of the 20th century and the years into the 21st century.