BC002: Media Mania // media evolution
- editor-in-chief
- Sep 16, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 1, 2023
Our media is manic. How did we get here? What has technology done to the ways we communicate? What--if anything--can we do to make sense of it all? Tune in to find out.
Show Notes
0:00 - Intro
2:34 - Introduction to The Information Age
11:00 - Let's Define Media
17:00 - The Beginning of Mass Media
30:00 - The Dark Side of Mass Media
43:00 - Media Literacy [AADMI]
56:39 - TL; DL
Extra Information
If you found this remotely interesting, please don't stop here.
Check out these resources I compiled while studying for this episode:
An outstanding book that influenced a lot of my thinking around this podcast. William Reese-Mogg and James Dale Davidson do an incredible job of providing a meta-historical approach to epochal societal transitions, and offer a unique look through the "logic of violence" lens.
Outside of the discipline of communications, Edward Bernays is a little known figure. The nephew of the great Sigmund Freud, Bernays was a pioneer in group psychology, personal relations and mass media. In his own words, "we are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." And that's just the start. This book is a short read and definitely worth the investment.
Edwards Bernays grandson is Marc Bernays Randolph,
co-founder and first CEO of Netflix
If that notion isn't disconcerting to you in any capacity you've come to wrong place.
Enjoy your blue bill salad and Netflix binge. Snapchat it while you're at it!
One of Noam Chomsky's seminal works, MC is a masterpiece that blatantly exposes the corruption and malfeasance of modern western media. The propaganda model I described in the episode was adopted from the first chapter of the book.
If you’re reading this, you’re curious. If you’re curious, you’re alive. If you’re alive, welcome. It’s our duty as Human Being’s to experience what it feels like to be alive every single day. So often we find ourselves pulled in so many different directions—by society, our relationships, our emotions, our media, and so much more. It’s important to find time to connect to our humanity, whether that’s in nature, meditation, family, or what grounds you. Take some time today to do just that. It's waiting for you.
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