BTMM final 3
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- How does TV impact reality and how does that impact our views of reality?
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tv shapes our view of reality. It is more or less a simulated reality
*it is your social perception - How dould we view reality TV?
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The things are edited and showed on the screen shows that those are the important things to look at.
*they simulate reality - How do we discover truth in mass communication and the media?
- through people with integrity; those who take a chance against those that are in power, etc
- Why did Van Doren go along with trickery?
- for the money and promoting education
- How was the fraud eventually revealed in the Quiz show?
- through Van Doren
- At the end of quiz show, did the full truth emerge? why?
- no b/c Van Doren took the whole blame and noone thought to blame the system.
- How do we discover truth in mass communication?
- you don't b/c the truth is blurred
- How did the Truman show refect the ideas of Marshall McLuhan?
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He lived in TV show, where his life is predetermined by technology.
*producers wanted to generate the maximum amount of profit for the show - How does the Truman show reflect the ideas of Walt Disney?
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Disney created a fantazied reality; like the Truman show
*tv provides a way of escaping reality - How are the ideas of McLuhan and Disney related?
- both believe in technological determinism
- What is the role of surveillance in the Truman Show?
- to watch his life
- What does the Truman show say aout Celebrity culture?
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-when you are a celebrity, you are under constant surveillance.
-it is temporary and doesn't ;last - During which major event did the 1984 Apple ad appear?
- during the superbowl
- Who was the host of the opening of Disneyland?
- Ronald Reagan
- What did Walt Disney want Disneyland to be?
- a 3-d media enviroment
- When was the world fair and how many people went?
- 1939>>> 45 million people went
- Why did Walt Disney create Disneyland?
- felt that the flat screen was to limiting
- What did the opening of the Truman show represent?
- that it is all real, all true,... just controlled
- What is the main idea behind the Truman Show and the blue pill in the matrix?
- it is that we accept the world as it is given to us.
- When was the first time that Truman suspected thaty something was wrong?
- when one of the lights fell down from the sky
- In the Truman show, the show was a metaphor and extension of what?
- christoff
- Who was the one that stated that "we accept the world as it is given to us"?
- christoff
- What was it like inside of the dome in the Truman show?
- it was like being in a movie set
- What was going on as Truman took his first stepinto the unknown?
- everyone else was stayed plugged in
- What was the main point behind the Apple ad?
- don't let things be predetermined for you
- Who was the one that predicted that people wil turn into machines?
- george orwell
- The 1984 Apple ad was a break through for what?
- computers
- Who was George Orwell?
- the author of the book 1984 and animal farm
- What was the main point behind the apple computers?
- apple computers will put an end in technological determinism
- Which media technology were featured in the ad?
- media, tv, computers
- According to the ad who will prevail?
- human's will prevail
- How did the x-files reflect techno-determinism?
- their dicoveries gained conciousness of their own and soon turned on them
- What mass communcation technologies were used?
- everything
- How does the X-files reflect Mcluhan's theories?
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the fact that the medium is the mesage
*tried to create a sort of matrix - What was the x-files a replacement of?
- the movie "The Enemy of State"
- What was the popular pereption of the game show "21"?
- that the people were really smart
- What was the popular perception about the winners in Qiz Show?
- that they really knew the answers and marvelled at their knowledge
- In Quiz Show, what couldn't the people discern between?
- between the real and the fake
- What is postmodernism?
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the idea that culture is transforming, being inspired by technology, as well as changing ouylooks/ senses of how the world or nature works
-(tells t he ideal society)
*where the media is the dominant and controlling factor - What is the main point behind Blade Runner?
- it was saying that the real and artificial is blurring together b/c it is using fictional things to make it look real
- What is McLuhans idea about media technologies?
- media technologies are tools
- What are machines used for?
- they are used to mass produce things
- What year did the printing press come out?
- in 1455
- What year did the steam engine come out?
- in 1793
- How was knowledege transmitted in 1455?
- by the printing press
- The idea that you could burn coal ,steel,etc and it amplified human labor and made everything around us, came with what invention?
- the steam engine
- What movie that we watched in class would fit under "gender styles"?
- You've got mail
- What 2 movies would fit under the "media equation"?
- matrix and Truman show
- What movie would fit under Agenda Setting and Cultivation?
- Wag the Dog
- What 2 movies would fit under network cultural studies?
- Network and Wag the Dog
- A Face in the Crowd was a representation of what study?
- Rhetoric
- What 2 movies would fit under Technological Determinism?
- Truman Show and Matrix
- Rhetoric, Semiotics, Cultural Studies, Cultivation, Agenda Setting, and Media Equation, are all examples of what?
- the message is the message
- The idea that the medium is the message is a representation of what study/ theory?
- technological determinism
- The idea that we are moving beyond machines and that the media and theme are becoming blurred together is a representaion of what?
- postmodernism
- On the chart, techno. determinsim and gender styles were located where?
- in the middle of objective and subjective
- On the chart, cultivation, agenda setting, amd media equation were located where?
- they were classified as strictly objective theories
- On the chart, whaich theory was strictly classified as an Interpretive theory?
- cultural studies
- On the chart, Rhetoric was classified closer to which end of the chart?
- objective side
- On the chart, semiotics is located closer to which end of the chart?
- interpretive (subjective) end