Tuesday 25 January 2011

New and Digital Media Quotes

Hegemony

"...The State was only an outer ditch, behind which there stood a powerful system of fortresses and earthworks." (Gramsci 1971, 238)

Hegemony: Studies in consensus and coercion - by Richard Howson [The State and its Powers]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9HXp4Ex4yTEC&pg=PA163&dq=hegemony+study+of+consensus&hl=en&ei=JOI-TaPWKM60hAfig5HXBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Marxism

"For years, what I have advocated as the antidote to the threat of technological determination - or to the equally serious claim that the threat comes, not from technology simply, but from techno-capitalism - is a revival of the spirit of dissent in public interest activist movements"

Democracy in a Technological Society - by Society for Philosophy + Technology (U.S) [Marxism and Democratic Control of Technology]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=emKoAdUAsHsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Democracy+in+a+Technological+Society&hl=en&ei=0eM-TbibEM60hAfog5HXBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Pluralism

"If the world of technology can exist in different corporate cultures, it becomes possible to develop a cosmopolitan communicative culture for a technological world."

Corporate Integrity: Rethinking Organizational ethics, and leadership - by Marvin T Brown [Cultural Integrity as Openness]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-HGPIZFnPC0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Corporate+Integrity:&hl=en&ei=r-U-TaT8D8mDhQfJ9NXCCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Cultural Imperialism

"Does imperialism lie in the contents of foreign programmes? If so, how does the influence work? The screen appears to be blank; we can't see what the people are watching. But doesn't this blankness also signify our capacity to know how alien texts are red, and the cultural effects they may have?"

Cultural Imperialism: A critical Introduction - by John Tomlinson [The Discourse of Cultural Imperialism]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0CFMS0z5-gcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Cultural+Imperialism:+A+critical+Introduction&hl=en&ei=T-c-Tez8EZGFhQeA-4TcCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Globalisation

"Communication and transport technologies, however, might be better described not so much as reflecting the globalisation of technology as representing the technologies of globalisation since they service the increasingly global operation of cultural, social and economical life."

Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance - by Daniele Archibugi [The Globalisation of Technology]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IYBk4yk3F9oC&printsec=frontcover&dq=technology,+globalisation+and+economic&hl=en&ei=Weg-TdSFEcyxhAfcxZDDCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Post Colonialism

"Writing is not just a transcription of sound, but is a technology that produces fundamental change in conceptions of the world, its meanings, and the recovery of knowledge through its establishment of an 'autonomous discourse'" (Ong 1982:78-116)

Postcolonial Cultures - by Simon Featherstone [Postcolonial Cultures]

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HAV_pBAIHKIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=postcolonial+cultures&hl=en&ei=EOk-Tci0GIu3hAerz43gCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false