J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Trolls From Olgino, Breitbart News, Reddit

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Journalism
• Course: J 201
• Professor: Alilunas P

Document Summary

I have become spectator of my own life. Life becomes defined by participation in the culture industry. We depend on the news to get facts. Users more likely to stay off facebook. They want you to stay on it. Or all of these or none of these. When you do that you are engaging in a spectrum. Depending on your perspective and ideological framework. Planted to stir up divisiveness in america before the election. The capacity to control facts is essential for making and maintaining power. A piece of information presented as having objective reality. Objective : arising from experience with actual objects, Subjective : arising out of or identified by means if one"s conditions, or phenomena. perception of one"s own states and processes. Tools for how discourse becomes ideology and hegemonic. The more coverage a story gets, the more people are interested in it. United plane passenger dragged (april 9, 2017)