Archive: culture industry

• Two-Step Tweets: Teaching an Old Framework New Tricks

  By jhubanks@gmail.com November 14, 2011

  As media effects scholarship has evolved over the decades, media has always been understood to perform an important and influential function in society. Questions of whom media influence, with what e

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: comm theory, communication theory, culture industry, facebook, hypodermic model, identity, influence, lasswell, media studies, occupy oakland, Occupy Wall Street, online influence, opinion makers, political communication, politics, public sphere, social media, technological determination, technology, tweets, twitter, two-step flow

• Why the X Factor is enlightened…

  By Kgirginova October 19, 2011

  Surprisingly, the concept behind the X-Factor, a show rarely acknowledged for its enlightening qualities, is not too different from the idea behind the Enlightenment. How can that be, you ask? Well,

  Categories: 2011, The Gnovis Blog Tags: adorno and horkheimer, culture industry, Enlightenment, media, philosophy

• An Apology: Pop Culture and Theories of Affect

  By lp322@georgetown.edu February 8, 2011

  I’d like to begin with a confession: I end every Glee episode in tears, and I particularly enjoy it.

  Category: The Gnovis Blog Tags: adorno and horkheimer, affect, critical theory, culture industry, Deleuze, epistemology, frankfurt school, glee, guattari, Justin Bieber, lauren berlant, ontology, patricia clough, psychoanalysis