CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Media Studies, Critical Thinking, F. R. Leavis
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January 10th 2016: when looking at media messages or texts your brain generally engages in two actions: you. These elements always include: a reader, a text, the cognitive processes. According to hall the cognitive processes have to do with one"s capacity to relate one text to experience with other sign systems. In their essay theodor adorno and max horkheimer (1994) asset that western education systems function as conduits for the culture industry, deceiving all consumers. Their definition of the culture industry included the ideological consequences of the products of mass media and popular culture. This protectionist approach to education is still in use by educators today who argue that media acts as agents of distortion, deception, promotes aggression, structures communication environments. His evaluation of the rigid hierarchical division between the elite culture of the literary tradition (high culture) and newer media based cultural forms (low culture) led to a.