Noam Chomsky: Media and Mass Manipulation

Media and philosophy, part 7. A virtual lecture on Noam Chomsky.
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Outro Music:
Carsick Cars - You Can Listen You Can Talk:
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Hans-Georg Moeller is a professor at the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at the University of Macau, and, with Paul D'Ambrosio, author of the recently published You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity".
(If you buy professor's book from the Columbia University Press website and use the promo code CUP20 , you should get a 20% discount.)

Thanks to Nemo Li for helping with the Chinese subtitles!

[mwintersweet]

This is one of the best corners of the Internet. Thank you!

[malcolmosxx]

Of course like most I love noam Chomsky
After watching a Canadian documentary regarding media - I emailed him - while working at a university in Switzerland - he emailed mr back !!!! He replied within 1 hour- and naturally schooled me /
This event has led to lifelong respect and support- for most part agreement

[cjwarrington]

A quick comment on media diversity in the US: you mentioned that the US at least has corporate media for each party, so it is "more diverse" in that sense compared to Germany. However, since these two parties only disagree on a very small subset of issues (relative to all possible political issues), it certainly FEELS like there isn't any functional mainstream media diversity.

[AlanLimaMarques]

I used to think chomsky was a mathematician, because i studied some of his theorems in my computer science course

[Weyland_Yutani_Corp]

I'm really enjoying this series. Thank you for taking the time to produce and upload them!

[metamorphosis_]

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. -Noam Chomsky

[Amal-kzyi]

Babe wake up, professor hans just uploaded.

[Amal-kzyi]

I am really looking forward to the next lecture, i hope it's at least 3 hours

[Larkinchance]

The 1996 consolidation of media led to death of local newspapers and narrowed the public discourse dramatically. It included television, radio, newspapers, magazines and monthly publication. It concentrated the advertising dollar into the hands of a few giant corporations who shape the national narrative to their interest and not the public's.

[JoBlogs-jy]

A number of well adduced points on clashing schools of social thought and N Chomsky's contribution to dissect some of those long standing axioms of social sciences.

[annasipul]

love this video, you explain chomsky accurately and easy to follow. thank you!

[Daniel-mobj]

I've gone from a teenage watching Chomsky on YouTube to a 20s yr old watching a video about Chomsky on YouTube

[zoyanazir]

Very insightful analysis of Chomsky's work on media bias and I find it extremely relevant to how political themes and wars in the Middle East are being reported by so-called impartial Western media. Will use this video's contents to help me develop a research brief for one of my classes in a sociology Master's program.

[leehayes]

Chomsky obviously has had a huge impact on media discourse and linguistics.
Media discourse is more and more important as social media becomes an integral part of society.
Thanks for the video!

[CraigTalbert]

So many familiar Chomsky quotes. Takes me back to my early 20s.

[benzur]

The Chomsky Foucault debate had me just grabbing my head about how Chomsky doesn’t recognise that he holds a perception of a political goal which he considers good. I was as stumped as Foucault.
While the debate between the two was more focused, the two philosophers didn’t even reach common conceptual grounds to show disagreement in. Its not very different from the Peterson-Zizek debate in that way.

[KyleClements]

I'm loving this series of media thinkers. Thank you so much.
Any plans to cover Northrop Frye, a Canadian media theorist?
I find very little discussion of his ideas online. From what I've read, it seems to take a bit of a Joseph Campbell approach for archetypes and a bit of Alan Bloom for literature, but I would greatly appreciate someone smarter than me doing some analysis.

[robertdabob]

The target of the PR is the collective mind which is unconscious due to a lack of individual self awareness/ psychological development. Particularly an awareness of emotional affect and it's role in our perception and in how we identify with each other and as groups. This is where fear based propaganda functions and that's why it works. It's essentially the realm of CG Jung's collective archetypes.

[VaSavoir]

Chomsky does not consider the role of the media as analogous in totalitarian societies, where the threat of force has not been forsaken, and democratic societies, where thought control is crucial, since the threat of force is more remote. He has made this clear in may times and places.

[TommyLikeTom]

you somehow held my attention o a topic I'm well versed in, for 7 min, enough time for me to catch myself and write this comment