I needed a little more information and research on the effects media has on society as I would be incorporating this within my essay.
I came across a website: http://rayuso.hubpages.com/hub/Mass-Media-Influence-on-Society.
Here I was able to make critical notes and gain a little more insight into the way the media works and the effects it that on society. Using the notes and information gathered I will begin to structure and plan my essay.
4) Multitude
– ‘What are you before biopower?’
– The riots – taking control forcefully.
5) Tribal Consumers
– Transgression
2) Detournment is the idea of taking something and changing it.
– Situationist International
3) Resistance
– adbusters.ord is an example of detournement
– subversed the use of rhetoic
– other acts of detournement ‘Anonymous’
Below are key terms, phrases and sentences that I derived from the lecture about Biopower.
– It is the idea of body
– Idea of control and power
– Systems of control = historical control and to enforce control a law can be proposed.
“The design consists of a circular structure with an “inspection house” at its centre, from which the managers or staff of the institution are able to watch the inmates, who are stationed around the perimeter. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, poorhouses, and madhouse, but he devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a Panopticon prison, and it is his prison which is most widely understood by the term.”
Wikipedia. 2012. Panopticon. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon. [Accessed 03 February 12].
“people will not break rules because there is an assumption they are being watched.”
– Panopticism allows one group to control another.
How can you avoid panopticism?
– travellers
– homeless people
– illegal immigrants
– iPhone, Facebook and X-Box Live are all biopolitical technology.
I went through the brief question and summarised to my own knowledge what it is asking me to do.
Brief Question:
– How are people breaking the rhetorical position of your chosen piece of media?
– Find a justification
– How does the people breaking it really affect it?
– Explain what these people are doing? What happened? Why is it ok for them to do this?
Examples of media to potentially look at:
– illegal downloads
– family guy
– grafitti
– protests
– jail breaking
– riots
– strikes
I decided to choose riots as my piece of media. I will research and look into the chosen topic a little further to gain a more understanding of how I can go about this assignment.
Below are key words and notes that I gained from the lecture. Many of the notes I will need to research into a little further to gain a better knowledge and understanding.
Ivan Pavlov (1849 – 1936) – stimulus response.
Individual consciousness – personal opinion.
– Limial – Liminality – Liminoid = Neither here or there
Hobbes’ Social COntract
1588- 1679 see Leviathan
Notes and key words obtained in this week’s lecture.
Social Networks a range of approaches and considerations.
TED website – a podcast that talks about ideas and new things.
What constitues a social network?
Key Term:
– Taxonomy
– Folksonomy: The people are ordering the information. The users place something in order. For example; Google, Amazon, Reddit
– User reviews, tagging photos, making links
Theorist:
Clay Shirky talks about cognitive surplus.
– free time and talents
– very good at consuming
LOLCATZ – communcal value
USHAIDI – civic value
RUDETUBE – an example of these values
Kenneth Burke created a critical technique called Dramatism. The primary base of dramatism is the concept of motive: the reasons why people do the things they do. He also believed that life was drama and we may discover the motives of people (or as he refers to them, actors) by looking for their specific type of motivation in action and discourse. He created a ‘pentad’ which are five questions to find out the motives of these actors.
Kenneth Burke – ‘If action, then drama; if drama, then conflict; if conflict, then victimage.’
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