“The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.” WorldAudienceTelevisionProductsHugeElementsPaperAnxietyNewsVoteMarketingWidePsychologicalMagazinesConsumersLandscapeZoneSoftwareCashBootsPassiveTechnologicalBallotsPresent DayElectorateReadershipWeaponryOpportunistPolling Author:J. G. Ballard
“Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American drama seemed more a response to a materialist society run amok. The American-style Absurdism seemed to spring full-blown out of television advertisements and situation comedies, which had become new myth-making machines.” WarRunningSituationComedyStyleTelevisionDramaElementsSpringEuropeMachinesResponseMythInevitableLogicalAdvertisementsIrrationality Author:Arnold Aronson
“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.” IfsChoicesNumbersInformationTelevisionExpressionElementsVehicleFormationRankingConveying Book:Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture Source: Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture
“Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what we see on television purports to be the truth, but it's often largely imaginary - or wishful thinking, or any number of less honorable things.” ThinkingFilmNumbersTelevisionElementsDistinctionImaginaryHonorableDocumentariesWishful Thinking Author:Ruth Ozeki
“Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.” HumansShowsSuccessfulTelevisionElementsFindingsFormulasTelevision ShowsCoca ColaRum Book:A Book Source: A Book
“This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era.” WorldFeelsStatesAgeSpeakUnitedUnited StatesOur LivesHappenedMediaTelevisionElementsScaryErasPrivacyJustifyDissentSpeaks OutNew EraPeeling Author:Sandra Cisneros