Faculty of Arts
quotations used in lecture 4 – television and the public sphere
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• Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form (London: Fontana, 1974) p. 26.
“The unity of television as a medium of presentation thus involves a simultaneity that is highly ambivalent. It overcomes spatial distance but only by splitting the unity of place and with it the unity of everything that defines its identity with respect to place: events, bodies, subjects.”
• Samuel Weber, Mass Mediauras: Form, Technics, Media (Stanford: Stanford University press,1996), p. 117.
“In terms of technology…signals from two different channels cannot be received at the same time. But in practice we experience the screen as an opening through which we get access to another place, a place in which channels lie ‘beside’ each other. And as we move through this opening we ‘practise’ this imaginary, other place, transforming it into a space, our own ‘television space’.”
• Peter Larsen, “Imaginary Spaces: Television, Technology and Everyday Consciousness” in Television and Common Knowledge, ed. Jostein Gripsrud (London: Routledge, 1994) p. 114.
"While they don't exist as spaces and assemblies, the public realm and the public are still to be found, large as life, in media. Television, popular newspapers, magazines and photography, the popular media of the modern period, are the public domain, the place where and the means by which the public is created and has its being."
• John Hartley, The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of Popular Media (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 1.
“As a concept, globalization refers both to the time-space compression of the world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a whole, that is, the ever increasing abundance of global connections and our understanding of them.”
• Chris Barker, Global Television: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997), p. 34.
“For all that it has projected itself as trans-historical and transnational, as the transcendent and universalizing force of modernization and modernity, global capitalism has in reality been about westernization--the export of western commodities, values, priorities, ways of life.”
• Kevin Robins cited in Chris Barker, Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities (Philadelphia: Open University Press, 1999), p. 38
“Who is to say that Mickey Mouse is not Japanese, or that Ronald McDonald is not Chinese?”
• James Watson, ed., Golden Arches East: McDonalds in
“[Glocalization is marked by the] development of diverse, overlapping fields of global-local linkages ... [creating] a condition of globalized panlocality...This condition of glocalization… represents a shift from a more territorialized learning process bound up with the nation-state society to one more fluid and translocal.”
• Wayne Gabardi, Negotiating Postmodernism, (
Homework:
Barker argues that the concept of cultural imperialism is useful in explaining the power relations behind the global movement of culture, but the use of a one-way model does not allow for resistance in constructing nationality. IDENTIFY TWO problems with cultural imperialism and provide examples.
