I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.
The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.
Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
Communication is paramount, and what medium or what format you utilize should be a non-issue. In some respects, that has created a barrier for new media, especially web new media, because often times maybe the media itself comes before the concept, before the ideas, and ends up navigating or dictating the outcome.
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.