Overview
Week 10 Worksheet - Curtin
1. What is ‘the reverse flow of media’? Does it account for the entirety of global media flows?
2. What is the logic of accumulation? How does it contribute to creating media capitals?
3. What are trajectories of creative migration? How do they operate today differently than in the past?
4. How does sociocultural variation factor into the existence of several media capitals? How is regulation a part of this variation?
5. How can policy help to support new media capitals?
Week 10 Worksheet - Final
1. Stuart Hall introduced us to the idea of the dominant-hegemonic culture. Pick two authors we have read this quarter. What factors would they would argue contribute to this concept?
2. Adorno and Horkheimer introduced the concept of the culture industry. How do Oli Mould’s and Michael Curtin’s ideas complicate their conception of the culture industry?
3. Jonathan Sterne argued that Mp3’s are cultural artifacts. Yet Benjamin argued that mechanically reproduced objects have no aura. Can we reconcile these two views? Why or why not?
4. How have debates about digital media fallen into the trap of technological determinism? What might two of the scholars we have read argue instead about the role of this technology in society? (Pick any two scholars we read.)
5. How do media workers fit into the theories of Caldwell, Mould, and Curtin? How can their ideas be useful for those of you thinking about becoming media workers yourself?