Week13 1.5.5

The ‘culture industry’, the end of democratic participation and critical distance, is Strinati and Alan Meek.Mass society critics feared four things.First, the debasement and displacementSecond, the erosion of high cultural traditionsThird, loss of the ability of these cultural traditions to comment critically on society 's valuesLast, the indoctrination and manipulation.Totalitarianism is Fascism and Stalinism.It appears upon standardization, political indoctrination.And people are controlled 3S, sex, screen, sports.In those days popular culture grows up!!!Because of viewer are getting more.The ‘mere’ consumer comes from tyranny of market.I think couch potato is good case.Active looking back to a pre-mass culture are the recovery of community, the removal of central authority, control, online publishing and virtual communities.The Brechtian avant-garde and lost opportunitiesv are Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin.Bertolt Brecht says the Radio as an apparatus of communication.He also speaks two-way channels of communication in radio.I think nowadays radio web service offers listener to bring into relationship.Web service is real-time. So listener can send their tales that time.Walter Benjamin talks about “aura”.The “aura” means quality or feeling that seems to surround a person or place or to come from them.