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Frankfurt School On Technology Impact On Popular Culture Studies

Posted on:2014-06-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y S LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330473468464Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Popular culture is a very impressive cultural scene,and its development trend is also showing a more prosperous trend for the role and significance in the current social development,has aroused attention and thinking.In today’s society,technology is culture play an increasingly important influence,an important factor for mass culture.The high-tech continuously enhance and improve our material life and influence our cultural and artistic fields.The promotion of high-tech,contemporary electronic media in the dissemination of information capacity,speed,range has a qualitative leap,was deeply influenced by its art as a carrier.With the development of technology,popular culture has become an irreversible trend of the modern era.Text and strive to fully grasp the deep nature of popular culture and technology,analysis of the impact of technology on popular culture,to make it better for the service of humanity.In this paper,to the history of the Frankfurt School members of the critique of technology and popular culture and inheritance as a clue,systematically expounded the Frankfurt School generation of technology and popular culture.First,the generation,dissemination and development of the Frankfurt School of popular culture the background and technical and popular culture described and analyzed,and then discusses the Frankfurt School about the positive and negative impacts of mass culture.The positive impact of technology on popular culture from the audience,rationality,inclusive analysis.The public every day at the same time a lot of pressure,radio,movies,newspapers popular culture can not fill the vacuum to fill,which shows the audience of technology and popular culture.Madness and chaos of modern life,so that more and more people’s mental stress of modern life,the Internet,mobile phones,television and other means of communication to resolve the pressure and the loneliness of the spirit of the people’s lives,the generation of the popular culture is reasonable.Inclusiveness is reflected in the humanitarian world of technology,the technology can promote a culture of self-reflection,to create a new world of hope to the consumer society.The negative impact of technology on popular culture from the commodity,deceptive,one-dimensional nature and repressive.Cultural producers,driven by economic interests began to blindly cater to consumers,and thus a commodity of technology and popular culture.Popular culture usually to deceive the public in the form of modern society completely control people’s thinking also led to a one-dimensional,so that the public’s true feelings are repressed.Finally,to reveal the substance of the mass culture war from "A dispute the substance and the Frankfurt School and the Birmingham School of Frankfurt Popular Culture and Enlightenment of Chinese popular culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Frankfurt school, Popular culture, Technology
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