SOCA01H3 Lecture : Chapter 18 - Brym
Document Summary
the turn of the twenty first century was thick with movies about the blurred line separating reality from fantasy. - an example of this is the matrix (1991) keanu reeves plays neo who finds that his identity and his life are illusions. -in the truman show, jim carrey is an insurance agent who discovers that everyone in his life is an actor. the movies today suggests that the fantasy worlds created by mass media are increasingly the only realities we know. They are quite pervasive and influential just as religion was 500 or 600 years ago. canadian media guru marshall mcluhan who coined the term global village in the early 1960s, said the media are extensions of the human body and mind. -it is relatively true today that the human body and mind are extensions of the mass media. the mass media are print, radio, television, and other communication technologies.
