SMC219Y1 Lecture Notes - Jean Baudrillard, The Saturday Evening Post, Urs
18 Jan 2013
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Everything we learn and know is done in one of two ways: somatically: learned through direct sensory perception of our surroundings. In other words; we know what something looks like, feels like, smells like etc. , because we have seen, felt, smelled that certain thing. Critical media studies: is about the social and cultural consequences of the capability to mediate, share info, etc: mass media: communication technology, that mediate what we know and how we know. Potential to reach larger audiences in remote locations. Who are the mass media: person addressing (like in a hall, or grad speech) 40,000 people is. Not considered mass media because that person"s location is not remote. If a singer is having a live broadcast of their show via satellite, those watching at home are experiencing mass media. The kinetoscope (1892), early motion picture device that showed short, silent films to individual.
