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30 Mar 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta
Para-social interaction is the simulacrum of having a transactional face-to-face encounter with someone who appears in media, in the form of audio and especially video (Horton and Whol, 2006). The mediated persona, in such cases as reality TV shows a...
29 Mar 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta
In the chapters 5 & 7 of Local Knowledge, Geertz discusses art as an object of anthropological study, assesses issues with "modern" notions of "thought," and offers critiques the elitism and disciplinary boundaries within the academy. Chapter 5 – “A...
28 Mar 2021 35 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta
If one wishes to analyze prisons from a communication perspective, they will inevitably grapple with Foucault. His 1975 book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison has become a canonical assessment of power relations in houses of punishment a...
28 Mar 2021 9 minute read 0 comments Maximilian Brichta
If there is one cultural critic that was able to capture early 20th-century America’s structure of feeling, H.L. Mencken is it. His iconoclastic, skeptical, caustic, and pessimistic critiques probed into the everyday life of the emerging middle class...
