(Week 13) new media: determining or determined? 1

1.5.5 the return of the Frankfurt school critique in the popularisation of new media & conclusion 1.6.1 the status of McLuhan and Williams

*cinema and games
1900-1920
aesthetics and pleasure of computer games developed from earlier media in quality.
1930-1950
hollywood show narritive cinema
21c.
Blockbuster


*Marshall McLuhan : new media change everything.
“The medium is the message”
“global village”

*Raymond Williams : media can only take effect through already present social processes and sustain existing power relations.

-The research direction to popular culture like movies and television


determining or determined?
by who?by what?