Tuesday, September 16, 2008

culture/power/history

Here are some questions to guide you through the reading for Thursday.

1. How and why have notions of culture recently changed?

2. How has the notion of power changed?

3. What does history have to do with it all?

4. What does it mean to say that power and resistance go hand and hand? (p 19)

5. How does Gramsci notion of hegemony understand the role of culture in society? (p 23 last graph)

6. What does this have to do with digital media? Please make a list of a few questions which could be applied to digital media and which draw on the notions the of power, culture and history described here.

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