Jacques Lacan: Real and
reality is differernt. Reality is a sybolic fabric and the real is a hole in
the fabric. İt can’t explain, just sybolized. It’s traumatic.
S.Freud: In his
approach, traumatic experiences have their place in unconsciousness.
Descartes: He aganist to Platon. The age of reason: ideas are
just shadows of all physical reality.
K.Marx: Physical reality is condition of our life. There is a curtain and it’s image of our
thoghts. The curtain is ideology. İdeology perplex to true reality, to do real
conditions of our lives. This curtain changes the conception of reality.
Example: we’re in an
uncomfortable place but we take it as a normal situation, we don’t do anything
to change it. Then we do the same things, so the system reproduce itself by our
behaviors and actions. We are both – subject and object of this system and
ideology. Object because: it affects us, subject because: we reproduce it by
our actions. Descartes called that the false consciousness.
Culture industry mass
media put in that ideology to the working class brains. Mass media inject
ideology of ruling class to working class brain. This stutiation teach that how
working class live in capitalist system and reproduce it. The most danger of
culturel industry is that it supports to fake necessity for people and satisfy
thanks to consume the products of capitalism.
Another part of
reality-internet: Virtual reality
Virtual and real are not
completely different because they work together. For example, we can transfer
easily lots of money from any country to another thanks to one button. So the
process is in virtual but it is real.
The different between simulation and virtual reality is
freedom. For example, flight simulators isn’t free for you because of real
flight conditions but you are free at virtual reality so you can do what ever
you want.
Cultivation Theory: If you
watch TV a lot and see crime, violence you think that there are a lot of crime
compare to reality. How can you
measure the crime and violence? Does
mass media has direct effect on behaviors, ideas?
Media Messages: We think that media messages are effect on people behaviors
indirectly because there are some criterions such as education levels, age, gender,
culture, belief, geography, language, etnic origin factors will be different on
people who be exposed to media message. These factors are important to comment
media messages. Because of these variances, media messages effect people
differents level. How much these process effect us, our behaviors will change
as far as degree of effects.
