COMN 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michael Warner, Web 2.0, Television Studies
15 Jul 2016
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Your personal experience of tv personal journal. What stories its telling analyze these stories. Race, gender, class, sexuality decode those messages. Media studies has a bit of a biased tv is purveyor of dominant idea (brainwashing) prof doesn"t believe this. Platforms merging + transforming each other, therefore, there is no reason to study tv on its own in a trans-disciplinary way. Platforms: web 2. 0, culture, art, fashion, music, design. Think of tv as not something on its own. Design a method on how to understanding it. Method that honors how we are experiencing tv. You"ve become your own dj to what you watch. To thinking about images as contested spaces in which we operate as. How much or how little that tv is a part of public space. For each user in the social field, these contested spaces might become spaces of encounter with the stories, discourses, myths, ideologies, projections of and about each other .
