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What is Media?

What is Media?. Media is most simply, the plural of medium. “The Media” is often a derogatory term meaning bias and/or sensationalism. Cycle of Limitations. Domain of potential. Domain of potential. Domain of potential. But media is literally everywhere….

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What is Media?

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  1. What is Media?

  2. Media is most simply, the plural of medium.

  3. “The Media” is often a derogatory term meaning bias and/or sensationalism.

  4. Cycle of Limitations Domain of potential Domain of potential Domain of potential

  5. But media is literally everywhere…

  6. We are prone to see reality as media. (even when no one is there communicating to us)

  7. Medium Media Generalizing from medium to media is easy.

  8. Medium Media ? Specifying down from media tomedium is often difficult.

  9. A stop sign is can be thought of as media, but what is its medium?

  10. A stop sign is can be thought of as media, but what is its medium? • Language

  11. A stop sign is can be thought of as media, but what is its medium? • Language • Sculpture? • Monuments?

  12. What medium is macro images?

  13. What mediums is it referencing?

  14. Language • Comics • Cartoons • Film? What mediums is it referencing?

  15. “The content of a medium is always another medium.”—Marshal McLuhan Speech—Writing—Print—Internet Telephone—Radio Drawing—Painting—Photography—Film Song—Music Television Body—Dance Video- games

  16. The conventions of mediums carry over into other mediums. Videogames Television Film Photography Painting

  17. The conventions of mediums carry over into other mediums. Spatial Perspective Videogames Television Film Photography Painting

  18. How has the medium of film influenced videogames?

  19. How has the medium of film influenced videogames? • Film envy (cultural) • Cut scenes (technological) • Player as cinematographer (interactive)

  20. What is Media Studies?

  21. Media Studies is the examination of the: • Effects • Content • History • Meaning • Politics • Power • Potential of Media.

  22. What are some Media Effects?

  23. Negative Media Effects • Videogames make us violent. • The internet feeds addictions. • Pornography ruins marriages. • Television damages critical thinking. • Popular Film • objectifies women. • places violence above sex.

  24. Positive Media Effects • Videogames teach us to multitask. • The internet frees people’s inhibitions. • Web video promotes democracy. • Painting in the Middle Ages taught the peasantry visual literacy (how to “read” images).

  25. We live in a visual media culture, dominated by video and images. How is that affecting presidential campaigns?

  26. Kennedy—Nixon Debates 1960 Television audiences thought Kennedy “won” the debate. Radio audiences thought Nixon “won” the debate.

  27. Kennedy—Nixon Debates 1960 (view debate)

  28. media culture Just as media affects culture…

  29. media culture …culture affects media.

  30. Scopic Regimes

  31. Scopic Regimes • A scopic regime is a way of seeing and thinking about the world.

  32. Scopic Regimes • A scopic regime is a way of seeing and thinking about the world. • Scopic regimes are reflected in and transmitted through media.

  33. Scopic Regimes • A scopic regime is a way of seeing and thinking about the world. • Scopic regimes are reflected in and transmitted through media. • They are a cultural effect that shape media.

  34. Scopic Regimes • A scopic regime is a way of seeing and thinking about the world. • Scopic regimes are reflected in and transmitted through media. • They are a cultural effect that shape media. • Media can be examined to learn about the culture and people that created it.

  35. Scopic Regimes Formalism vs. Naturalism There are two major scopic regimes:

  36. Arnold Hauser’s A Social History of Art Scopic Regimes

  37. Scopic Regimes Naturalism • Realism • Gesture

  38. Scopic Regimes Naturalism • Realism • Gesture

  39. Scopic Regimes Naturalism • Realism • Gesture Human Reality

  40. Scopic Regimes Formalism • Abstraction • Structure Human Reality

  41. Scopic Regimes Formalism • Abstraction • Structure

  42. Scopic Regimes Formalism • Abstraction • Structure

  43. Scopic Regimes Women in: Men’s magazines vs. Woman Magazines

  44. Scopic Regimes Naturalism • Realism • Gesture Formalism • Abstraction • Structure

  45. Scopic Regimes Naturalism • Realism • Gesture Formalism • Abstraction • Structure Clinical film about birth Stan Brakhage film about birth

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