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Panopticon's Subject Index V.2
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Panopticon's Subject Index V.2
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Nationalism, National Identity
Neue Sachlichkeit/"New Sobriety"
New Media
The News
NATIONALISM, NATIONAL IDENTITY
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~~~~~~~~~~~ NEUE SACHLICHKEIT/NEW SOBRIETY
"The New Sobriety" In Weimar Germany, from the book by John Willett.
1) Willett believes that German attempts to create a new society/culture were very special.
2) Art/Culture was still symbolic and/or expresionist but now also based on a "new sobriety," i.e., a more sober way of looking at art and society.
3) Weimar was a collective attempt to come to terms with popular demands and needs.
4) It spawned a new social and popular basis of art using new media; a serious attempt for avant garde art to connect with the people's popular culture.
5) How are these avant gardes trying to become popular?
a) e.g., Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" used jazz and dancehall music to make it accessible.b) The Bauhaus tried to take avant garde developments in achitecture to a wider audience through design, public housing etc.
6) It was a "new renaissance for the machine age."9/97
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~~~~~~~~~~~ NEW MEDIA
New Media means basically just that: new media. The latest form of mass communication developed by society always tends to be given this label. In years past it was radio, television, cable TV, satellite TV, etc. Nowadays it tends to be used primarily to talk about emerging digital/electronic communications forms, particularly the internet and the World Wide Web.
8/97
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~~~~~~~~~~~ NEWS
The news is all around us, in newspapers, television, radio, even the Internet. Local news, national news, international news, business news, sports news, and so on. But how "real" is the news? What kind of news are we, as consumers, really getting from the media?
The first thing to make absolutely clear is that the news we receive is not in any way "real;" it is only a representation of the world in language, and is itself "a discourse generated by a general sign system in relation to a social structure" (Hartley, 1982:7). Hartley reviews the process by which we receive the news as follows: it comes to us, the receivers, as "the pre-existing discourse of an impersonal social institution which is also an industry;" we become "news literate" as we learn and accept its codes and conventions; we as individuals come to perceive and interpret the world partly in terms of these news conventions; and as a group, we come to make up "reality" as we go along, perceiving it in terms of the ordered language system we have learnt from the news (1982:5).
Beyond this, however, news and the mediation of news can be seen essentially as a process of selection and transformation. As Stuart Hall reminds us, there is no natural order of news which is reported by the media. Rather, news itself is no more than "the end product of a complex process which begins with a systematic sorting and selecting of events and topics according to a socially constructed set of categories" (1978:1). In other words, the news a society gets is largely a function of its social system, not a reflection of reality, whatever that may be.
8/97
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