“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.” PeopleDifferentYoungLevelsInfluenceMediaEmotionalMassPassingPassingsPerformersOverwhelmingEccentricMass MediaPassing Through Author:Bob Dylan
“I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.” ArtSometimesPoetryPurposeArtistSpaceAttentionMediaEmotionalResponseOperationsPerformingRepeatsBehaviourProvokingTime And SpaceVariationSimplifyEmotional Response Author:Ellen Dissanayake
“We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together.” FeelingsTogetherSexSidesEmotionMediaEmotionalSeparation Author:Natalie Portman
“J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.” UsedImaginationPowerfulModernMediaStyleTelevisionEmotionalRewardsTechniquePlentyCinemaPaceStorytellerRapidsStimulus Author:Michael O'Brien
“I want to create a rapid response team, right around the world, perhaps starting originally with our partners, similar to the one we have in the United Nations whereby, where there's a problem in our society which demands a compassionate response, an educated, informed, not just a splurgy emotional thing, but an informed compassionate response that puts yourself in the position of the other and sees all sides of the problem, not just your own, there'll be somebody poised in each society who can write to the media, write an op-ed piece, to go on TV or radio.” WorldWantWritingProblemNationsSidesUnitedPiecesTeamMediaPositionEmotionalTvsGoes OnDemandResponseStartingRadioPartnersEducatedAround The WorldOur SocietyCompassionateUnited NationsRapidsEmotional Things Author:Karen Armstrong
“Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.” AbleStrongSexWeekMediaEmotionalProductsDevicesStrongestTriggersStimulusEvokeAdvertisementsSubliminalSex And DeathStrong EmotionalEmotional RelationshipEmbedding Author:Wilson Bryan Key
“Globalisation means indeed everything is global but there are still very specific centres of power, especially when it comes to media and news.Misinformation about some attacks is going to affect how emotionally involved the audience is going to get. In the end, an emotional ranking is artificially created when it comes to casualties.” MeanStillsEndsAudienceMediaEmotionalInvolvedNewsCentreCasualtiesMisinformationRankingGlobalisation Author:Tariq Ramadan
“We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security." Everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security." But it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. And that's a key distinction.” StatesUseGovernmentCertainTermSecurityMediaExampleEmotionalKeysConcernedResponsePhrasesDistinctionProvokingNational SecurityEmotional Response Author:Edward Snowden