Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture : MIT 2100.docx
24 Feb 2014
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Britain happened, murdoch told roger ailes (head of fox news) to send an ambassador to afghanistan to represent petraeus (dirty dealing) Tuesday january 15, 2013: aaron schwartz, committed suicide before trial for illegal downloading. What is political economy of the media: creative commons: new way of thinking about copyright- people have legal right to use someone"s work, commons: before people owned things, people shared things like pastor lands. Internet was first imagined as a place for everyone: digital enclosure: emulates enclosure of commons (pastor lands) It can diminish economic growth: undermines social cohesion and leads to social tension, study of media is study of politics because media companies hold so much power of audiences, we live in a sound bite economy. Cattle rancher: when it comes to media it makes sense to look at social and economy. Media commodities are dual purpose: satisfy consumer demands, define, allocate and display social reality. Jean durham peters: (put the above dilemma in words)
