Media History - FINAL TERM MIL

George Orwell

Wrote a dystopian novel entitled 1984.

1984

A cautionary tale, a warning that if we don't learn from history, then the future might be a repetition of what happened in the past.

1984

Depiction of the manipulative use of media technologies to keep the masses of people under control and surveillance.

Orwellian Use of Media Technology

Means that media is used to manipulate how society thinks, acts, and feels.

Orwellian Use of Media Technology

It connotes brutal control of media dissemination of propaganda, deliberate misinformation, surveillance, reversal of truth, repression, rewriting of history, and manipulation of memory.

Misinformation

Inaccurate information.

Untruths

Carefully constructed lies.

George Orwell

"The future cannot be separated from the past."

Hatred and Fascination

Strangeness attracts _____ and _____.

Future existence

Hatred and fascination threatens _____.

New technology

Makes tomorrow tentative and opens to uncertain opportunities.

Ray Bradburry

Novel Fahrenheit 451

Earphone and flat screen

Ray Bradburry, Fahrenheit 451

Surveillance cameras and ubiquitous screen

George Orwell, 1984

Philip K. Dick

Short story Minority Report

Touch screen technology

Philip K. Dick, Short Story Minority Report

Air touch

Movie-based Minority Report

Arthur Clarke

The City and the Stars, Novel Space Odyssey, Movie Space Odyssey

Virtual Reality games

Arthur Clarke, The City and the Stars

High-tech "News pod" (Tablet) Videocalls

Arthur Clarke, Novel and Movie Space Odyssey

Gene Roddenberry

TV series Star Trek

Scanadu Scout-Medical diagnostic device and flip phones

Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek

Paul Levinson

A media historian and a science fiction writer.

Paul Levinson

"Argues that the history of media is guided by soft determinism..."

Soft Determinism or Compatibilism

A belief that free will and determinism can co-exist.

Individual and Culture have the ability to shape the Direction and Impact on Media Technology

Technological advancements and innovations in media have a deterministic influences on society but still _____ and _____ have the ability to shape the _____ and _____ on _____.

Social realities but it influences Social tendencies

Means that emergence and dominance of media technologies do not cause _____ but it influences _____.

Deep influence of media technologies on societies

Soft determinism accounts for the _____, when they begin to subtly constitute to environment.

Human factor the way individuals and societies

Soft determinism accounts for the _____ respond to media technologies

Interplay between media technologies and the human factor

Soft determinism accounts for the _____ that surrounds and drives media technologies.

Paul Levinson

The impact of every medium is subject to an audience of human appraisal, expressed not only in ideas but in the behavior of utilizing a medium or not.

Human appraisal, expressed not only in ideas but in the behavior

The impact of every medium is subject to an audience of _____, expressed not only in ideas but in the _____ of utilizing a medium or not.

Soft-Sell advertisement

Associative in nature.

Hard-Sell advertisement

Utilizes explicit message.