Tuesday (11/17) Notes

Questions:
Medium = message?
What is power & how does it relate to media?
What is mass self-communication?
What is counter-power?

Points:
Media as agenda-setting
- media as space where power is decided
Politics of scandal
- weakening of credibility in politicians
- distrust of political arena
- voting against rather than for
Power: structural capacity
Counter-power: push-back
Google-bombing, other attempts by horizontal media to affect vertical media
Nation-state is losing ground
- media
- governance
Surveilling internet

Critiques:
Stylistic-douche baggy
Need better examples of mass self-communication
Arguing from doxa
Lumping people into category of "sheep"
Either/or like Boyle, Halleck

Aaron's Media Artifact:
Twix- Get the Girl commercial
- blogging as habit
- mass self-communication
- Jeremy Epstein: 80% blogs should be other people, 20% you
- Entertainment value
- "Just like us" value