Mass media and erosion of culture

Subtil, Filipa Mónica de Brito Gonçalves

Publication

Mass media and erosion of culture

2006-09-15Conference object

dc.contributor.author	Subtil, Filipa Mónica de Brito Gonçalves
dc.date.accessioned	2019-11-26T12:46:06Z
dc.date.available	2019-11-26T12:46:06Z
dc.date.issued	2006-09-15
dc.description.abstract	At a time when, apparently, we have the right degree of freedom and extraordinary technical means to expand those qualitative aspects which are crucial to a good society, such as communication and culture, there are increasingly loud voices questioning the role of the mass media in creating a public arena guided by what Max Weber called ethical or “substantive rationality.” For many, the discussion of contrary opinions and the exchange of reasoned arguments has been severely compromised by a flow of information which encourages iconomania, or a passion for the image, and promotes the supremacy of the visual over the intelligible and the decay of abstract thought and of clear, distinct ideas, in sum, by reducing the potentialities opened up by the modern world to their merely strategic elements. In this essay, while not doubting such negative effects of developments in the information sphere as have occurred, I seek to understand the persistence of certain ways of thinking about modern society which neither accept that communication can be reduced to the mere conveying of commodified information, nor are limited to highlighting the perverse effects of the progress of reason and technology. My argument takes into account the perennial aspects of communication, namely participatory experience, contact, sharing, commonality, and the establishing of reflexive ties over time between the community and its cultural context. The development of a civic, universalist and cultural notion of communication may usefully draw on neglected ideas such as those of the Chicago School in the 1920s and of Canadian thinker Harold Innis. In the context of the shifts and changes of our age, these types of thinking, undertaken by other thinkers, have significant potential for increasing awareness that communication is only possible by means of those modalities which create experience and the feeling of belonging to a community.	pt_PT
dc.description.version	N/A	pt_PT
dc.identifier.citation	Subtil, F. (2006, september, 15-16). Mass media and erosion of culture. Paper presented at Conference: Internationalising Media Studies: Imperatives and Impediments, at Westminster University, London, England	pt_PT
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/10746
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI)	pt_PT
dc.publisher	School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster	pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://conferencealerts.com/show-event?id=ca1a30s8	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Mass media	pt_PT
dc.subject	Culture	pt_PT
dc.subject	Communication	pt_PT
dc.title	Mass media and erosion of culture	pt_PT
dc.type	conference object
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oaire.citation.conferencePlace	Westminster University, London, England	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Conference: Internationalising Media Studies: Imperatives and Impediments	pt_PT
person.familyName	Subtil
person.givenName	Filipa
person.identifier.ciencia-id	2A11-F551-80F8
person.identifier.orcid	0000-0003-2556-2192
rcaap.rights	closedAccess	pt_PT
rcaap.type	conferenceObject	pt_PT
relation.isAuthorOfPublication	afaef3fe-6225-42c9-b166-549b65507584
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery	afaef3fe-6225-42c9-b166-549b65507584