Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Maynard Keynes, Neoliberalism, Culture Industry

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2100F/G
• Professor: Nick Dyer- Witheford

Document Summary

Lecture four policy: media, public goods, neoliberalism and beyond. Contrast between (cid:494)free markets(cid:495) and state control. With the latter, associated with: propaganda, official art, censorship. These were all aspects of existing state socialist regimes. We are encouraged to pit against that ours as a free-market society in which democracy is ensued by minimizing the role of government and its power in the media sphere. In nearly all capitalist countries the state influences cultural industries by: commodity exchange is enabled by cops, police, a whole that we take it for granted and don(cid:495)t think about it, laws. Oversight over how much of media any one corporation controls: subsidies. Support, via taxes for particular industries, public or private: security and war. Regulation = term used to describe all sorts of state intervention in media sphere: bundles all the different types of state involvement in media (laws, regulation, subsidies, security and war)