COMM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cultural Homogenization, Ugly Betty
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Taught us about what it"s like to live in a media filled world. Celebrated for connecting to idealistic views of how attached people got to the video. The young people have an incredible amount of power to take action over key issues. Social media has the power to set the agenda. Ability to tell us what to pay attention to. Potential of campaigns to help us see the potential of how we can change the world. Pitched to a 5 year olds sense of right and wrong. Who is the west to say we have the solutions and they do not. Perception a lot of people in the west have. Think we need to help them become like us. We just forward the video without actually doing anything. Relationship to the world was changed because of global media. Picture of the earth showed that the globe was within human power. Beginning of kony video connotes peace, unity etc.