In Progress

The Culture Industry Thomas Adorno and Max Horkheimer proposed the concept of “The Culture Industry” in 1944, an idea inspired by Marxist ideologies that has colored our understanding of companies and brands like Disney, Target, and Paramount. The authors described a a direct relationship between entertainment and business, which functions as a tool of social [...]

Posted on November 9th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Just finished reading excerpts by the granddaddy of media studies, Marshall McLuhan. McLuhan’s revolutionary idea was very simple–divorce content from medium and investigate the medium, and it becomes easy to see how much more of a lasting impact the introduction of a new medium has on people than the collection of content passed through that [...]

Posted on September 15th, 2008 by DeepthiW
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