POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: George Orwell, Factiva, Newspeak
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Newspeak and how they are making a new dictionary, and the point is to narrow the process of thought, so when there are no words to express something you will not know it. So they are destroying words: this is similar to what we are doing now (destroying words by using mono-syllabic words, and destroying diff. words by not using them at all) Think about how our use of technology impacts the way we think and communicate. Information based media that is supposed to inform us to be self-governing. People love to criticize the news that it is biased, superficial, etc. (read. Argue that the news in north america actually do a good job sustaining democracy. The issue is that what are the normative standards that are used to see how democracy is sustained through news: stromback looks at 4 diff. types of democracy: procedural,
