PSY427H1 Lecture Notes - Donna Haraway, Media Psychology, Mass Society
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We are studying media psychology not psychology of mass media. Media comes from medius (latin): in the middle; to be medius=to: media: agency that mediates in two points: the sender (generative origin) and the receiver (reception process) In the bridge metaphor (refer to section 3. 1), the media is the bridge. Medium itself and the media: the medium constrains the content. Peter jackson made film about lotr: was tolken"s. The way that we engage with that story, and the forms of experience are. Entirely different (each one of us reading imaginatively actively creating a landscape that are implied within the story; that"s not what happens when you watch a film; cinema attacks your perceptions; psychologically different than reading experience) Mass media: phrase that is wedded to a sociological conception of society: transformation of society from community to virtual strangers. It is marked by a sociological shift ; mass society came from sociology. Interests today: don"t revolve around traditional mass media (like.
