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Mediated Series - Part 3:
Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It, became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landscape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter.
In Part 3 Bridget and Thomas discuss how the intrinsic human desire for recognition and acknowledgement translates into seeking fame, when the notion of adolescence evolved in our society and how teenage girls essentially run the world, the use of the words "like" and "literally," what "dialectic" actually means and how it applies to celebrity culture and their audience, why the only heroes that can exist in a mediated world are the "everyday heroes," whether it's possible to be truly authentic anymore, the overuse of therapeutic language everywhere now, Thomas's Holocaust thought experiment, and why Bridget would be valuable to people in media studies.
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Mediated Series - Part 3:
Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It, became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landscape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter.
In Part 3 Bridget and Thomas discuss how the intrinsic human desire for recognition and acknowledgement translates into seeking fame, when the notion of adolescence evolved in our society and how teenage girls essentially run the world, the use of the words "like" and "literally," what "dialectic" actually means and how it applies to celebrity culture and their audience, why the only heroes that can exist in a mediated world are the "everyday heroes," whether it's possible to be truly authentic anymore, the overuse of therapeutic language everywhere now, Thomas's Holocaust thought experiment, and why Bridget would be valuable to people in media studies.
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