Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Balts, Pith, Deet

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G
• Professor: Tim Blackmore

Document Summary

Corporate, economic, race, sex, class, propaganda, using intimidation, criticism to gain control, using power as manipulation, governmental control. Dfens"s use of weapons gives him power over those that are weaker than him and allows him to manipulate them to get what he wants. Store of korean man economic, political, race, class. At burger joint corporate, power as manipulation, using intimidation. Golf course power as manipulation, using intimidation. Dfens uses his nationality to defend his actions; we"re the same, you and me. Perception of self vs. other, alienation, societal conflict based on the marginalization of the other. Ends justify means, needs of society over individual, standardization, dependence on the machine, stripped of identity, dependence on technology. Dfens is alienated from his family because of the restraining order. On the pier, dfens complains of being ill-treated by society isolated because he is unemployed and divorced, therefore has limited opportunities.