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CONSTITUENTS OF A THEORY OF THE MEDIA HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER - 1970 AL LARSEN SPRING 2010. SOCIAL WEB MEDIA. Page numbers refer to the essay as published in The New Media Reader. Enzensberger – b 1929 German poet critic etc. Marxist perspective base & superstructure. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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SOCIAL WEB MEDIA
CONSTITUENTS OF A THEORYOF THE MEDIA
HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER -1970
AL LARSENSPRING 2010
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Page numbers refer to the essay as published in The New Media Reader.
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Enzensberger – b 1929
German
poetcriticetc.
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Marxist perspective
base & superstructure
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SUPERSTRUCTURE
BASE
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“The base
is traditionally said to consist of the
forces and relations of production. [...] The
superstructure is traditionally said to be made
up of things like political systems, religion –
and the media.”
introduction Wardrip-Fruin / Montfort
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(Habermas'sdiscussion of the
bourgeois public sphere arising in the 18th Century)
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CULTURE--------------
PRODUCTION
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CULTURE--------------
PRODUCTION
QUESTION: relationship between:
changes in the last 50 years in the image of a “normal” family
--------------changes in workplace demands
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THE MEDIA BUSINESS
“THE CONSCIOUSNESSINDUSTRY”
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WHAT DOES IT PRODUCE?
HOW?
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Everett Collection/Rex Features
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image: Life
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“Constituents of a Theory of the Media”
Electronic media circa 1970
new satellitescable tv
cassettesvideotape
videotape recordersphotocopy machines
timesharing computers
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Emancipatory potential of the
electronic media.
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Emancipatory potential of theelectronic media.
Sees this potential as being held back because it is politically threatening.
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Emancipatory?
see p. 261“The Mobilizing Power of the Media”
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“The Mobilizing Power of the Media”
(p 261)
mobilityfreedom
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p. 261
“Anyone who thinks of the masses only as the object of politics cannot mobilize them. He
wants to push them around. A parcel is not mobile; it can only be pushed to and fro. Marches, columns, parades,
immobilize people. Propaganda, which does not release self- reliance but limits it, fits into the same pattern. It leads to
depoliticization.”
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For Enzensberger the potential lies in participation.
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For Enzensberger the potential lies in participation.
“For the first time in history the, the media are making possible mass participation in a social
and socialized productive process...”
(p 262)
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For Enzensberger the potential lies in participation.
“For the first time in history the, the media are making possible mass participation in a social
and socialized productive process, the practical means of which are in the hands of
the masses themselves.”
(p 262)
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“In its present form, equipment like television or film does not serve communication but
prevents it.”
(p 262)
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IMAGE
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“circuit reversal”
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“REFLECTIVE OF A
SOCIAL DIVISON
BETWEEN PRODUCERS
AND CONSUMERS”
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PRODUCERS / CONSUMERS
RULERS / RULED
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ABC / CBS / NBC
-
REPUBLICANS / DEMOCRATS
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ABC / CBS / NBC-
REPUBLICANS / DEMOCRATS
“In both cases marginal differences in their platforms reflect a competitive relationship
which on essential questions is nonexistent.”
(p 262)
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“Minimal independent activity on the part of the voter/viewer is desired.”
(p 262)
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“Societies in the late industrial age rely on the free exchange of information...”
“Quarantine regulations for information, such as were promulgated by fascism and
Stalinism, are only possible today at the cost of deliberate industrial regression.”
(p 262 - 263)
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Wikipedia Image:
“The Rhodesia Herald of 21 September 1966 shows the effect of censorship imposed by Van der Byl's ministry.”
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“The Soviet bureaucracy [...] has to deny itself almost entirely an elementary piece of
organizational equipment, the duplicating machine...”
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TOPICS TO COME BACK TO:
Filtered Internet (China, others)
Facebook as described in NY Times article
“cute cat theory of digital activism”
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MEDIAMANIPULATION
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For Enzensberger all media productions are manipulative...
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For Enzensberger all media productions are manipulative...
it's largely a problem of the limitations on who gets to do the manipulating.
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“The question is therefore not whether the media are manipulated, but who manipulates them. A revolutionary plan should not require the manipulators to disappear; on the contrary
it must make everyone a manipulator.”
(p 265)
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“The contradiction between producers and consumers is not inherent in the electronic
media; on the contrary it has to be artificially reinforced by economic and administrative
measures.”
(p 266)
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Radio telephony (many-to-many media)
is technically achieveable but lacking in
licensed bandwidth (1970)
Broadcast television (centralized media)
is given more spectrum.
(p 266)
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Screenshot: zyra.org
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https://microphones.audiolinks.com/Articles/images/MicDiagram2B.jpg
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Implications?
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ISOLATED USE OF MEDIA:
HOBBYIST / TINKERER
HOME USE
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ISOLATED USE OF MEDIA:
HOME MOVIES
HAM RADIO
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QSL CARD
(CONFIRMATION OF RECEIVING
TRANSMISSION)
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“...the individal, so long as he remains isolated, can become [...] at best an amateur
but not a producer.”
(p 266)
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“Any socialist strategy for the media must, on the contrary, strive to end the isolation of the
individual participants from the social learning and production process.”
(p 267)
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Think in terms of the “SOCIAL”
AUDIENCE...
COMMUNITY...
PARTICIPATION...
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By what standards is the work of
the amateur judged?
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“The poor, feeble, and frequecntly humiliating results of this licensed activity are often
referred to with contempt by the professional media producers.”
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LO-FIAESTHETICS?
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EMANCIPATION?
HOW?
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organized
not just transmitting and receiving
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Cameras, recorders, in the workplace, school, etc.
“...everywhere where there is social conflict.”
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“...a mass newspaper, written and distributed by its readers,
a video network of politically active groups.”
(p 267)
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Indymedia
open publishing
collectively-produced alternative journalism
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Indymedia
started:
1999 – Anti-WTO Protests in Seattle
local sites / collectives all around the world
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COPWATCH
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1991
Police abuse of Rodney King caught on
videotape by
George Holiday
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(Police officers acquitted)
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