Medya Gösterisi

by Douglas Kellner, Zeynep S. Doğruer Koçak (Translator)

Modern hayatın oluşumunda medyanın ne tür etkileri olmaktadır?
Medya gösterisi, insanları bütün yönleriyle kuşatan bir hegemonya vasıtası mıdır?
Medya gösterisi aracılığıyla hayat, bir eğlence, bir drama, bir teslimiyet, bir tüketim formuna indirgenmektedir?
Global baskın kültürün taşıyıcısı olan medya gösterilerine tepkiler nelerdir?

Medya gösterisi, aslında baskın rol modeller, moda, görüntü ve kişilik sembolleri sunan bir şöhret kültürüdür. Gösteri dünyasında, şöhret, eğlenceden politikaya, spordan ticarete kadar bütün önemli sosyal alanları kuşatmıştır. Medya gösterisi, çağımızın belli başlı umutları ile korkularını, hayalleri ile saplantılarını ve hayata dair deneyimlerini açık bir şekilde dile getirmektedir. Ayrıca medya gösterileri; cinsiyet, ırk ve sınıf ile ilgili karmaşık sorunları şifreleyerek, temsil siyasetini sahnelemektedir.

Genres: Academic

352 pages, Paperback

First published November 28, 2002

About the author

Douglas Kellner is a "third generation" critical theorist in the tradition of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, or Frankfurt School. Kellner was an early theorist of the field of critical media literacy and has been a leading theorist of media culture generally.[citation needed] In his recent work, he has increasingly argued that media culture has become dominated by the forms of spectacle and mega-spectacle. He also has contributed important studies of alter-globalization processes, and has always been concerned with counter-hegemonic movements and alternative cultural expressions in the name of a more radically democratic society.

Kellner has written with a number of authors, including (with Steven Best) an award-winning trilogy of books on postmodern turns in philosophy, the arts, and in science and technology. More recently, he is known for his work exploring the politically oppositional potentials of new media and attempted to delineate what they term "multiple technoliteracies" as a movement away from the present attempt to standardize a corporatist form of computer literacy. Previously, Kellner served as the literary executor of the famed documentary film maker Emile de Antonio and is presently overseeing the publication of six volumes of the collected papers of the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse. At present, Kellner is the George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.