Task 3

Essay Map

Thesis

Does Print Media still have a place in the Digital Culture we live in today?
Analog vs Digital

1. Throughout history, print media played an important role in popular culture.

'to give people a voice of their own' - expression

• Working class making their own culture - expressing themselves.
• Democracy - eliminating social hierarchy, separation of social classes.
• Print Capitalism.
• 'A History of Communism' book - Power to the people.
• Protests.
• 'Penny Dreadfuls' article.

2. Propaganda print media was an effective way of influencing a society.

'to influence a society'

 

• Propaganda in war - manipulation.
• German propaganda WWII - Hitler kind to children? Feeding a certain mentality.
• 'British prints from the machine age' book. Informing a society, WWI.
• 'Why paint war? British and Belgian artists in World War One' article links to above.
• 'Propaganda as a weapon? Influencing international opinion' article.

3. Reproducibility of an image made art universally available.

'to make art universally available'

• Advertising - distribution.
• Loss of value, authorship and expression.
• 'The Designer as Author' essay.
• Authenticity, not always relevant for the purpose.
• Free for interpretation - popular culture.
• Post-modernism - fan art/film posters.
• Print Culture - of the people.

4. The digitalisation and invention of the internet has given anyone the access to imagery - Do we need a physical copy (print)?

'disputing the role of physicality of a print in the digital age'.

• Mobilisation of digital communication.
• 'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction' book.
• Jean Jullien's Paris symbol - Universally acknowledged (speed), printed media not needed.
• Social Media.
• 'Fractal dreams new media in social context' book - communication.
• Books/print into film/TV.