CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pabst Blue Ribbon, Lady Gaga, Consumerism
18 Nov 2016
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Petroleum companies try to get consumers on their side by handing out lip balms, Afteroil. ca impasses of fossil fuels that is, what blocks us from transforming to other forms of energy and of the economy locked into its rhythm . Consumerism is woven into climate change impasse. Oil and cheap energy exist at the expense of the environment. Tricks people into thinking that environments do not want us to use oil at all thus abandoning oil would ruin our current good lifestyles. E. g. ad saying find the 10 items in this picture made with oil by transcanada. U. s. announces biggest oil spot in texas (10 billion barrels +), suspicious that information only leaked once trump won the presidency. We buy things we don"t need with money we don"t have to impress people we don"t like. A theoretical perspective that seeks to explore and take complex account of the ways in which media production is received and used by audiences.
