Media Studies
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The Truman Show: An Esoteric Breakdown 𧡠In the the 1998 classic "The Truman Show", Truman Burbank, who was given up at birth after an unwanted pregnancy, was adopted by a Movie S...
Let´s talk about Russian Information Operations. 𧡠Featuring today: COVID-19 How Russia used the Pandemic to further societal rifts in Europe and to bind more people to their inf...
I love these sorts of people-- it must be so fun to be them-- they get to be the Dictator of the Proletariat inside their own little minds-- a Communism of Sentiment, atomized & is...
Ok I've learned that Fight Club is a satire? Now what? Is that it? https://t.co/pT53Q92rSt
This is actually an example of what might be called a 'dead unicorn trope'. People think they're beating a dead horse but it's original existance is rarer than the think. Ex: Hero...
Many exotic theories of Euro witch-hunts circulate, but I offer you a simple one: After the 15th c., various advances in media, other areas brought the learned classes into contact...
It's 'beyond depressing' to me that the influence of a book like Watchmen that is really a meditation on heroism and on the superhero as a cultural icon reduces over the decades to...
a thought on narrative. today we have concept of "spoilers" for a story. this is a modern idea. like I have been talking about lately with theater and comedy/tragedy, back in ye ol...
A highlight from the new @thingobserver / PPM collab investigation would be the Nazi telepath & likely British intel asset Erik Jan Hanussenβs attempt to manipulate the media frenz...
What is ignored or neglected by the media -- but will be studied by historians? Here's the full list of 25 examples: https://t.co/yzj9yGjDz9
Here are a an exclusive interview/discussion with #ChatGPT on how #mediatization functions in a contemporary hybrid media system.
the problem with discourse is that it facilitates simultaneous creation of hegelian opposite egregores, which is a prerequisite of self-replication. the basis of memetic warfare is...
Examining @nytimes coverage on religions over a couple decades. Starting with 3 articles from 1990-91 by Barbara Crossette: https://t.co/iicuDfZKgE https://t.co/3niFM6W2c2 https...
a long time ago there were family shows, dramas and sitcoms. they were in a rough sense based on ideas about families more than they were based on families then a series of events...
I wonder if the results would change if the poll question was posed differently. "The world is controlled by a secretive elite" seems loaded to me. I would struggle with the word...
Broadly speaking, I've noticed two seismic changes in children's stories since mass media 1) Morality centered around individuality / finding one's true self, rejecting tradition...
So, I've been thinking about moral panics. Their history. The academic frameworks describing them. Their global history, and history in the US, and why the one we're in the middle...
1/ Social media allows you to carefully curate a set of voices which are essentially just your own voice. J. Ellul explains: βThose who read the press of their group and listen t...
Iβm accepting applications for my *first* grad student to start in Fall 2023! Interested in studying intersectionality, stereotypes, gender and sexual socialization, sexualization,...
1/ You cannot argue somebody out of a position that they were entertained into. Lets talk about why the arts and stories are so important using as my example the first Pokemon mo...
1/ The mixture of sexual revolution, 2nd and 3rd wave feminism, and the decoupling of sex from love and family led to the raunch culture (girls gone wild, pornstars in music videos...
Studies of populations after 9/11 & after the 2008-2009 Gaza massacre suggest that indirect exposure to mass trauma through media leads to population-level surges in PTSD-like symp...
This is the correct interpretation of pornography, but it fails to explain why men would seek it instead of all the things she lists. In modern "relationships", men are given empty...
https://t.co/PhY0HymK9t Yes, exactly, Antis finally approaching the point that the reasons why someone creates and/or consumes disturbing media is more important than it just being...
