Re: what we spoke about in the last lesson, here's an article that appeared in The Guardian one year ago, How Facebook and Google Threaten Public Health and Democracy by Roger McNamee. Comparing Facebook and YouTube to Christianity and Islam? Punchy stuff.
Your pre-task for next Thursday's class, which will be about Spectacle in Media, is to read the piece by Jon Harris on how Guy Debord Predicted our Distracted Society and consider the following questions:
1, To what extent do you feel that life today is realised through mediated images?If you have not seen that film, your bonus homework is to check it out. It's not available on Finnish Netflix anymore, so I don't know how you can do that.
2, Which of Debord's ideas do you agree/disagree with?
3, How does Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show blur the boundary between appearance and reality?
