SOC379H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Media Event, Rationality, Cyberbullying
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Project of modernity, ideas of efficiency, industrialization, rationalization. Create and form an identity, before mass media, serial killing was in the dark. Points out that he is doing the same thing. Thinking of serial killing as different from normal killings. Human as an object: means to an end. In process of modernity, we singled out who are disposable people. Already people put on the boundaries of society, who the serial killer preys on. Modernity project -> not just a nazi thing. To make society better was a modernist project. "portraying murderers as unfathomable different elides the disconcertingly familiar modern face of serial killing" Way to distance - talk in a decontextualized way. We want the person committing these crimes to be a monster, but sometimes this monster is someone you know. Not to downplay harm that can be caused. Accounting for social problems: talks about rise in victimization, folk wisdom (common sense): We understand it is a problem: objectivist:
