Mediated World (Lecture 2)

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Media Around the World

The Screen

  • The information which we get and then pass on is often screened via unknown people and mass communication technologies
  • Transformation over time
  • Social relations - media as human interaction - how we communicate with, relate to, understnad (or fail to) ourselves and other. Relationship between individuals = society. 

Functionalism 

  • As the world gets more populated with people there is a need to a) circulate information within expanding communities; b) encourage local, national and global identities; c) create and maintain allegiances (e.g. Nation or the Government) 
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Plato - student of Socrates

Plato looked at the Republic

  • The origins of an idea of knowledge, citizenship and of mediation
  • Attempted to draw a roadmap to an ideal state in order to solve a problem. 
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Individual desire & communal good

  • People want to follow their own rules and desires, hence why sometimes people deviate
  • Society easily descends into chaos (Use mods and rockers as an example here)
  • To create the polis we much discourage animal desire and encourage critical thinking
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