Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Media, Pleasure & Identity

The Meaning of Meaningless
There is a theory on diasporic audience & studies which 'explores how dispersed global audiences use media to maintain connections with distant radical, ethnic, religion or national homelands'. Socialogical escapism refers to forensic use of media to dissect social importance.The writer says ' what it would feel like to live in a world where we could be whatever we wanted to be' to explain this terminology. On the other hand, psychological escapism refers to aspects of the personality largerly affceted by the social setting.The writer concludes that watching moreTV has a effect on the interset you have in what life means.
Healey& Ross's(2000) show exploration of older television viewers show how such audiences indeed 'use' media to articulate what it means to be vennerable.In conclusion, this article shows how people use media such as TV to escape from the 'real world'.

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