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Research On "Self - Landscape" In Pan - Media Landscape Society

Posted on:2015-06-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2208330431468773Subject:Communication
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The world now we live in is a mediated society which is full of decorations. Moreand more media images come the background of our consciousness. The ways wethink, we learn, even the relationships with others have been changed by thoseimages creating by media. Those spectacles have become a social relationshipbetween people, which is covering our reality. Our reality has been swallowed byspectacles, and then we live in spectacles. The developments of new media,especially the development of social media allow us to show ourselves moreconvenient and more efficient. As people are no longer satisfied with watching thespectacles, we expect to be watched as well. In the end, we turned ourselves intospectacles.The self-spectacularization does not only impact ourselves and others online,but also has influences in our real life. Moderate and positive self-spectacularizationcan not only play a positive role in our auto-suggestion, but also may producepositive effect on others opinions of us, as we might say, moderateself-spectacularization may bring us actual benefits in our off-line life. However, wemust realize those potential negative effects if we overindulge inself-spectacularization.As written in the book of the Society of Spectacle,"What binds the spectatorstogether is no more than an irreversible relation at the very center which maintainstheir isolation. The spectacle reunites the separate, but reunites it as separate."Whether we admit it or not, people really easy to fake true to false. Though thesocial media change our interpersonal interaction, we are still Phubbing and staysilent in front of our relatives and friends, because we have been immersed in mediafor so long that we confuse those interactions online as the true relationships. Deepthinking is replacing by shallow thinking. People are abandoning their rationalcriticism, even beauty and value judgments. This vicious cycle turns the vanishing ofhistories and meanings. Here comes the “no shows no exist” era. Of course, themedia itself is neutral, but various forms of media consumption were concerned with the meaning and value issues. Information at the time of the collapse of peoplesthinking and to stimulate the senses screen successfully neutralized the meaning andsignificance of the pursuit and reflection. Vanishing meanings and mass media aredissolved dissipate the negative effects of the role is to refuse depth meaning, theinevitable result of enhanced pleasures of consumerism.In such case, each of us should have a sense of using media legitimately, be ableto identify and know which things are just media illusion and should have a clearmind telling oneself that illusion is only illusion, non-normality. Each of us mustconsciously control our time immersing in the world of media and get rid of the mythof various spectacle illusions, otherwise “Truth becomes fiction when the fictionstruth” and we can easily create false comprehension and be objectified by thosespectacles we made ourselves.
Keywords/Search Tags:the Society of the Spectacle, self-spectacularization, self presentation, Proteus Effect, hyper-reality
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