Lecture 3

part one
skipping 8 years into the future was a different approach. To think that you are stuck in Socrates' proverbial cave by denying the possibility of the world being transformed from beneath us through a constantly developing media landscape is ignorant. I thought that the expulsion of news papers as a medium and the further adoption of cyberspace as our most prominant and eventually sole source for news wasn't such a big deal, however after sifting though the possible implications of such change It made me feel sad that we were making our media so impersonal.

To pick up a newspaper, just like watching a band live or watching a movie in a cinema, is diffferent to reading the same news on the internet. Guy Debord's immense accumulation of spectacles is a reflection of the internet which transforms news into a mere impersonal representation.

It seems such a tremendous waste of resources to continue to produce newspapers and magazines soley due to this downfall in regard to news on the internet, however other problems that may arise out of a dominant media spectrum such as epic are numerous.

1) To have a world wide news service, what language do we use?
2) Would local news die due to international free-lancers posting greater amounts of material? Companies such as RG Capital are allready killing the quality of content on local radio, a multinational corporation such as google would surely enhance this gap.
3) Is it right to have one organisation dictate the processes for the gathering of news and information? is their word the final word?
4) Will the world become too globalised, as borders become "virtually" non-existant?

It is interesting to note that most people are predicting the fall of a superpower in America as resources in China boom, however with global media being controlled by the American culture it seems that their dominance has only just begun....