SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: John Durham Peters, Data Mining, Noam Chomsky
16 Mar 2018
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Essence of capitalist ideology pretending to call out an individual subject via a manufactured form of mass address? . Werbin: mass communication -> claim that everyone has a right to be an individual subject and voice their opinion as if it"s a liberating act but there is data mining (categorization and profits) Chomsky: system of power of subjective thought; participation without critical thought = participating in propaganda filters. Kuhn: images of female body -> consuming how we should feel about the female body (if we"re not critical -> subjective feelings = crafted for us) Share ideas -> innovative, learn new ideas and skills. Don"t have communication -> feel trapped, close minded. Not communicating -> anxiety increases (don"t know what the other person is thinking) -> overreactive when our emotions are taking control. Shifts how one interprets others" actions etc. Trends becoming the new normal; we become the new normal. Modelling our lives after instantaneous/surveillance function/power dynamics.
