Media, Information and Technoculture 3216F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Consumerism, Media Culture
14 Sep 2016
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4 out of 6 short answer identification questions. Assess a subject and apply concepts and readings. Consumption as an institution = shared way of thinking and acting. Both anxiety and happiness related to consumption. Institution of consumption shapes us, and we in turn shape the institution. Socialization = how we learn to be human. In contemporary society, we promote a consumerist way of living and thinking and relating to each other, more than any other external factor. A having way of life vs. a being way of life. Alienation = our removal from other people and from ourselves. Like consumerism, nationalism and religion are belief systems. Many see consumerism as the new religion or nationalism. Phones amplify real-life relationships, yet these relationships are not reality. Terrorism can be seen as violent resistance to the culture of consumption.
