Death by Television

Question 1

Imagined Communities

Answer 1

18th century France
The idea that people are connected through the media (newspapers)
nationalism
TikTok

Question 2

“Print Capitalism”

Answer 2

identify community being felt through newspaper you are consuming
mass usage of newspapers

Question 3

Public Sphere

Answer 3

Jurgen Habernas
18th century
People start to individually think of ideas and then people interact to form a consensus of ideas/debates
Happened in coffee houses
Letters by individuals were sent to the editors of newspapers so that individuals’ voices were being heard

Question 4

4000 Years of Television

Answer 4

Book by Richard Whittaker Hubel in 1942
People have always thought of transmitting images but it took time for technology to make it happen

Question 5

Broadcast culture

Answer 5

Television, movie, radio
Before there was folk culture now in the 20th century there is broadcast culture

Question 6

Frankfurt School

Answer 6

Media as propaganda
German theorists, the school, and watching the rise of fascism
Work for the capitalist, and leisure being a consumer, giving the money back to the capitalist
Few people control the media being consumed by a society during fascism
Included Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer

Question 7

Siegfried Krackauer

Answer 7

Distraction- give your attention to the screen, but you don’t lose yourself to the screen (view on television)
Part of the Frankfurt School

Question 8

Walter Benjamin

Answer 8

Shock- media can shock it out of you, not absorb you, allows you to go back to yourself (view of television)
Part of the Frankfurt School

Question 9

Laura Mulvey

Answer 9

Gender of Gazes
Talks about watching media (designed in the male gaze and not for women), women as spectators are not possible in cinemas
British- feminist

Question 10

Jeau Baudrillard

Answer 10

No reality left- media is a full part of our lives that we can’t look out of it
No access to the real anymore, Simulacra - everything is a copy of a copy

Question 11

Newton Minow

Answer 11

TV is a Vast wasteland - nothing of substance to watch
Amusing us to death
Making us passive
Head of US television

Question 12

Rudolph Arnheim, “Forecast for Television”

Answer 12

The belief that Media is a connector
Universal connection
Connect us and we become this great universal culture

Question 13

Stuart Hall (encoding/decoding)

Answer 13

Media have messages inside, and has we watch, we decode the media ourselves
Media can be interpreted in complex ways
Different ways to connect to different characters