the study of communication is the study of social processes, wherein significant symbolic forms are created, apprehended and used.
b) process of power negotiation
Micro:Everyday life
Macro: Institution
PE
Proliferation of media institution
"Inverted political economy" Davis, 2007
Annotations:
The overall cumulative impacts on social life of existence of media institutions and their involvement in circulation of symbols. Thompson, 1995
把两者结合起来的案例:
1) Public Sphere
2)Community &
Networks
问题
Annotations:
稍微还是有点模糊,是说反过来看现在社会变成了什么样? 不懂为什么是inverted PE.
Micro + Macro
Transmission+ Ritual: the role of audience
Transition of interactions:Tompson, 1995
Dialectical - monological - dialectical?
Culture: Marti-Barbero
Critic: Utopian
E.g. Game Monopoly
Subsuming power
B.Consequences
Our lives
are
increasingly
mediated
Pessimistic
1.Deuze,2012: Fish out of water
傻傻分不清楚:
Virtual reality &
Reality
Radical separation from our bodies
2.Mejias
Playbor
Turkle,2011
Unescapable
Optimistic
1.Anderson
2.Hall
Following cultural critic tradition
3.Martin-Barbero
This is a Dialogue!!!!
Shani强调We believe
there is place for
resistance
Key: How much dialogue is
left, space of resistance ----
livingstone piece
C.From 'the media' to mediation
Silverstone : from mass communication to mediation
Mediation
Media and communication field
intermediary
epismology - experience of meaning making
Mediation as a productive activity
Mediation result in alienation - historical trandition
pessimistic research now
Approach
what are being mediated?
what are the mediators?
Consequences of the process
Mediation or Mediatization?
Mediatization: H & S
mediation: silverstone
Hjarvard & Schulz: Mediatization
Annotations:
Couldry,2008
It is stronger at addressing aspects of media textuality, suggesting a unitary media-based logic is at work.
Silverstone: Mediation
Annotations:
Couldry,2008
despite the vagueness of this concept, it provides more flexibility in thinking about the open-ended and dialectical social transformation.
Locate historically
No sense of place
Broadcast media
late modernity
Contribution: how significant our relation to space and time has been