1) To what extent do you agree with Alain de Botton's views on the News?
I agree with Alain de Botton's views on the media to a very high degree with a lot of his theory of how the media is run and how audiences and media production work in the 21st Century. Some of his key points I agreed with was the ideology of passively controlling audiences by flooding the audiences with all the news available so that their is nothing to grip on to which leads to the audience not being able to make their own opinions on current news stories. Another key point I agreed with was the idea of tragedy and reaction. It's when a tragedy happens in a country that we haven't reported on (properly a third world country) and as a result the audience doesn't care about it due to not finding out how the country used to be like and as a result I audiences has nothing to care about besides random strangers in a different country.
2) How can you link Marxism and Hegemony to de Botton's criticisms of the News?
Marxism and Hegemony links very well with Alain de Botton's views on the news because Marxism is all about the media companies having all of the control over the massive middle class that the UK has now developed throughout the years. And looking at how people consume media it true that the big media companies have all the power with every big media cooperation controlling every platform that the audience's believe that have control over for example blogger owned by Google, YouTube owned by Google and Daily Mail have their comments monitored so only the good comments can be seen and it helps with hegemony because the audiences are disalusioned to believe that people actually have freewill to believe what they want but in reality they are a bunch of monkey's writing a load of rubbish.
3) How could you use Pluralism and new technology to challenge de Botton's views on the News?
I don't believe so for the reason of his views fit so well with Marxism I don't believe that they would fit into the Pluralist point of view.
4) Choose two news stories from the last six months - one that supports de Botton's views and one that challenges his belief that the News is used for social control.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/06/bbc-journalists-shorter-videos-aimed-mobile
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/19/blacklivesmatter-birth-civil-rights-movement
No comments:
Post a Comment