CMN 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Autopilot, Garageband, Syllogism
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Lecture 1 - 1/10 - why media literacy? (chapter 1& 2) We live in an information saturated culture. In order to survive, we put our minds on automatic pilot in order to protect ourselves from the flood of media messages we constantly encounter. The danger w/ this automatic processing of messages is that it allows the mass. In the us, the # of musicians has more than doubled in the last 4. 1500 new book titles are published throughout the world each day. The device-ification of modern life = making everything that you do. Musicians can use garageband to create music. There are 2. 4 billion internet users worldwide (300 billion e-mail. There are more people producing information than ever before. Half of all scientists who have ever lived are alive today & producing. Hollywood releases more than 700 hours of feature films each year. More than 100 hours of new video content are uploaded to youtube every.
