Marshall McLuhan

Faith Holloway Phil 268- Art and Culture Argumentative Essay 300314105 A Critical Analysis of Lintott’s ‘Sublime Hunger’ The subject of eating disorders can be a particularly difficult subject to analyse. This can probably explain why it is particularly overlooked within the realm of philosophy, despite being such a widespread and devastating illness. However, Lintott not only discusses eating disorders within a philosophical sphere, but furthermore she approaches the subject through a unique…

Printing has been an intrinsic part of our life since the invention of paper. As a first means of communication, paper opened up a great deal of opportunities for people. Printing industry has undergone a variety of changes since the 90s. Jigar Shah, Founder of iPrint shares “I remember my dad bringing in one of the first Mac Machine with 4-5 different fonts in 90s with no regional language support! From letter pressing to printing, everything was manual. Today the scenario has completely…

Uses and gratification theory is one of many communications theories that help to explain human’s relationship with mass media. The main idea is that people turn to media to assist them in fulfilling certain needs that used to be filled by just talk to other people. The uses and gratifications theory (UGT) is a way of understanding why audiences use media and what they use it for. It can be applied to many areas of society from entertainment to news content. However, it’s relevance in social…

The media plays a huge part in today’s society because it is everywhere! People have it on their phones, televisions, and even the radio! Media is also filled with tons of ads or commercials. These commercials like to persuade everyday people to buy their product. These companies must use many different techniques to have a sufficient impact on their target audience. A commercial I see a lot of the time is from Ford Motor Company showing off their new 2015 F-150 Truck. This new Ford commercial…

Reading Rosenberg’s thoughts in her chapter “A Good Sailor” she once again seemed to take more of a top down approach, although she studied many people her main focus was on the men who made people disappear. I believe that this provided a unique prospective of how one looks at the events that have taken place. Like she had stated in her chapter on El Salvador “The Laboratory” many journalist focus on the most obvious victim but not on the men and women of a higher social status or in this case…

The intellectual elements during The Twenties mainly revolved around the invention of the radio. The radio was able to create a “national mass culture” (Keene, 634). It was able to spread news and stories, as well as, promote the sale of certain products. People who were able to obtain these radios, which was about 60 percent of the American population, gathered around them to hear the latest in sports and elections (Keene, 634). The radio provided a quick and easy way to spread information.…

Interpersonal communication can be defined as when two people interact with each other. Interpersonal communication can be experience in our daily lives when we have an encounter with someone. Furthermore, interpersonal communication can be use anywhere be it at work, school, home or social gathering. An example of interpersonal communication between my brother and I. My brother: Hello . Me: Hi. My brother: how was work today?. Me: work was fine.(Feminism,2016). Intrapersonal…

From early art in the 1600’s to the emergence of television, the media has had a rapid and unstoppable invasion on lives. Media overwhelms society with drama and entertainment. In “Supersaturation, or, The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling” by Todd Gitlin, he asserts paintings were what television is today: entertainment. In the 1600s, these paintings were passed down from generation to generation, and today, television shows rarely last two seasons. Gitlin feels as though the media…

How much power does the media aspect of the world have on the human body? When the world encounters a horrific event, the details of such event goes straight to the media. People rely on the news channels and the web to get the details they want to know. People have encoded their brain to become fixated on the next big thing, and they cannot stand to be without the media. In contrast to De Botton and Beam, the media has the ability to affect the human’s minds negatively and positively. As people…

Over the decades contemporary art has always been a huge influence in our society, it affect unconsciously the way we behave and the way we think. It can be expressed in different forms such as crafts, TV shows, Advertisements, films, fashion and print media. Nowadays, media art has been considered as a dominant mechanism of communication that affects us as humans in a positive but also in negative way. One of the most influential expressions of media arts is advertising and it can be defined as…