Topic 7 :: Media Imperialism

For this week's topic, we shall be looking in on Media Imperialism:

The documentary entitled "The Power of Nightmares (Part 3 - Shadow in the Cave)" by Adam Curtis was shown in class on Monday. How do you relate the information given to you in the documentary to the theory of Media Imperialism that we talked about in lecture?

To start off, the definition of Media Imperialism:

Media Imperialism is a theory stating that smaller countries are losing their identity due to the force-feeding of from larger nations. It can be equated to small community shops closing down due to large superstores moving in, taking over and having a monopoly. As the larger corporations begin to take over, smaller companies are either being forced out or swallowed up.

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In regards to the documentary,

First critical reflection would be how the US government tried to push the world into thinking how the extreme islamist movement was a threat to them and even tried their best to manipulate the audience into thinking it's a wrong thing therefore it's considered as a Media Imperialism into making us all think of the wrong thing instead of the contrasting truth.

Second critical reflection is how audiences perceives the information and yet takes the step to believe what is on the media due to it being widely subjected towards a big target audience therefore, they are brainwashed by the false information that was given. You could say that without people who are working on trying to dig out the truth, audience will forever be stuck under the influence of Media Imperialism and everything false that goes with it.



Reflection on the class:
Class was okay,
Only one thing.
I could see that everyone was shivering terribly from the cold.
I think it's because of the lack of students in the class due to submission the next day.
But i'd appreciate it if you could lower down the aircond level. Very very much will appreciate it because i'm bad in cold places. Seriously.









Couldn't concentrate because of the cold.