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- Xentic
for a project I am in search of nice quotes about media and the
influence which the different media have on the social life of people...Don't know where to look though...
- rabattski&rabattski0
always a good starting point regarding what you're looking for is marshall mcluhan.
- Xentic0
thanks. I remember heim now... Do you know if the book David Carson did with his quotes is any good?
- rabattski&rabattski0
dunno. what's the title of the book? carson produced quite a lot of books. i have a stack of carson's books here so if you can drop the title here i can check if i have it.
- Xentic0
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…
Probes is the name of the book. Looks nice...
- rabattski&rabattski0
don't have it. is there more to see than just the cover? not too keen on the cover but you know what they say, don't judge a book etc...
- Xentic0
http://www.gingkopress.com/_cata…
I'm not shure what to think of it..
- Xentic0
but hey, don't let this turn into another David Carson topic.
any more people to quote?
- rabattski&rabattski0
well maybe a bit hard but joseph goebbels had a major influence on the social life of an entire country with his propaganda. he actually perfected propaganda in usage as a medium when you look at it neutrally and not at the actual content itself. which ofcourse is wrong. always a sensitive topic.
- rabattski&rabattski0
oh, and defenitely check out douglas rushkoff's work for your project. maybe even more appropiate than mcluhan (although he's referenced by everybody in that field, you might want to check up on some baudrillard stuff as well). anyways, check/read children of chaos.
funny enough, children of chaos isn't mentioned in his book list. dunno why.
- lowimpakt0
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum -- even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
-- Noam Chomsky, The Common Good,
"Long before the Soviet Union broke up, a group of Russian writers touring the United States were astonished to find, after reading the newspapers and watching television, that almost all the opinions on all the vital issues were the same. "In our country," said one of them, "to get that result we have a dictatorship. We imprison people. We tear out their fingernails. Here you have none of that. How do you do it? What's the secret?"
-- John Pilger,
"The inappropriate fit between the country's major media and the country's political system has starved voters of relvant information, leaving them at the mercy of paid political propaganda that is close to meaningless and often worse. It has eroded the central requirement of a democracy that those who are governed give not only their consent but their informed consent."
-- Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly,
"It's done differently in El Salvador. There they send in the death squads. Here what they do is try to hook you on sitcoms. It's true that both are techniques of control, but they are rather different techniques."
-- Naom Chomsky
"News is what someone, somewhere is trying to suppress, the rest is just advertising"
-- Lord Northcliffe, British Press Baron
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers."
--Thomas Pynchon,
- Xentic0
thanks guys! That's a great help!
- Xentic0
bumb -> anyone else?