Media & Democracy
Week 10
Media as Ideological State Apparatus
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGsEt-qtOqs Tosh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED5s1-Fe9FA Cash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sijN4Lt5c10 Dylan
Democracy as Shibboleth
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Media/Corporate Propaganda, Law, Control
Ideology, Agency, the State
Althusser and Media as Ideological State Apparatus
 State/Nation –
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capitalist mode of production is coterminous
Illusion of equality
Mechansims of rule
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RSA
ISA (ideology in structure; unconscious)
Althusser
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Ideology is a representation of the Imaginary Relationship of
Individuals to their Real Conditions of Existence
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Ideology masks sets of real relationships; stories we tell ourselves about
what is real “becomes” real
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Unconscious Analgesic
Representations of their relations to relations of production rather than their real
relations to production
We are interpellated into Subject Positions
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Media – and modes of address
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXQozTxQSiE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojqOMWTgv8
Marijuana in the Public Mind
Law
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 Discourse
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 Ambiguity
– 14 states/DC
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/business/media/05pot.html?_r=1&th&emc=th – Med. Marijuana Ads
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a boon for local newspapers looking for ways to cope with the effects of the recession and
the flight of advertising — especially classified listings
Proposition 19
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/marijuana-legalisation-california-proposition-19
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Marijuana America
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Rolling Stone
Why is it really illegal?
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http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_is_marijuana_illegal
 Grass
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What are the economics of legal pot?
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http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/pot-economics-who-stands-toprofit-if-marijuana-is-legalized/19436146/
 http://whalen.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/marlboro.jpg -pic
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What is the face of competition?
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http://healthland.time.com/2010/09/16/does-big-beer-fear-big-bud/ -
What is the message sent from Washington?
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http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-15/politics/holder.marijuana_1_legalizesrecreational-marijuana-federal-marijuana-laws?_s=PM:POLITICS
 http://abcnews.go.com/WN/vote-2010-election-buzzkill-opponents-californiaprop-19/story?id=11965618
Pot in Popular Culture
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Pot moments
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http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/gallery/cheechchong/
http://www.hulu.com/watch/26022/animal-house-smoke-some-pot
Saturday Morning Cartoons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obxfuFrUTzg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Weeds_episodes
Shifting Public Discourse/Debate or Diversionary Tactics
Safe Alternatives
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Energy drinks,
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University drinking culture (Alcohol)
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http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/nc/nc2a.htm
Drugs
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http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/396/1-party-school
Prohibition
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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/high-alcohol-high-caffeine-drinks-posehealth-danger/story?id=11928034
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/caffeinated-booze-drugs-sickened-studentsparty/story?id=11965071
Pharm Parties - http://hubpages.com/hub/The_Truth_About_Pharm_Parties
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/22/60minutes/main6422159.shtml
Tobacco
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Personal Freedom or Public Health
http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/9/3/263.full
Democracy, Government, and Power
Understanding laws as process
 Understanding society as a function of
economic relations
 Understanding the System as Status Quo
 Public Responsibility vs. Individual Rights
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 Discourse
as a function of Ideology
 Civic participation as agency for
change/stasis
 Breaking out of the Matrix?