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ALL ABOUT k.i.s.s.
SITE NAVIGATION
SPECIAL TOPICS
BIG INDEX
SITE MAP
WHAT'S BEYOND
NEW MEDIA CORE
VISUAL LITERACY
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MORE INFO ABOUT k.i.s.s. (back to top)
- The idea of
k.i.s.s. of the panopticon is to give people a quick,
user-friendly, one-stop shopping guide to all these things listed above
the INTRODUCTION, including cultural/critical theory and its
relationship with communications and new media, including the Internet.
It might also help to get people thinking and maybe, just mebbe, provide
a fresh perspective on how this stuff really affects our
lives.
- One of the cool
things you might realize from this site (if you hadn't already done so)
is that a lot of the postmodern European intellectual stuff that sounded
just plain crazy a few years ago is now actually starting to make sense
in the age of the Internet. Baudrillard's and Eco's ideas on hyperreality, just to grab one example,
suddenly seem a little more real and a lot clearer within the
computer-mediated realm of hypertext and hyperlinks. At the same time,
we need to understand the older paradigms of mass media and society
(Marx and all that lot) before we can really get a grip on the "new"
stuff.
- However, beyond a
simple rehashing of the big ideas out there, it is my modest (and
populist) aim to make cultural theory both straightforward and
intelligible -- hence the subtitle 'k.i.s.s.' ("Keep It Simple Stupid")
-- as well as applicable to those of you asking yourself "What
does it all mean?". This is kind of important if this field is not to be
strangled by impenetrable prose and dense, elitist
drivel.
- BTW, If you want
a look at what happens when academics forget how to write in plain
English, just take a look at
this.
Otherwise, please read on or go straight to the links below.
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"cultural theory
for the rest of us!"
critical theory
cultural theory
media
literacy
new media literacy
visual
literacy
-INTRODUCTION-
k.i.s.s. (Keep It Simple Stupid)
of the
panopticon
is a cultural theory
and media literacy Web
site run by Dougie Bicket,
hosted on the
carmen server
of the School of
Communications
at the
University of
Washington
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