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21L.015 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA STUDIES

 

CAVE PAINTING ON THE WEB

Tuesday 4 February 1997

Martin Roberts

 

A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS: MEDIA ISSUES

• Cover
• Act 1
• Act 2
• Act 3

DISCIPLINES & FIELDS

• Archeology
• Art history
• Communication
• Cultural Studes
• French Studies
• Geography
• Law
• Media Studies
• Mass Culture: Tourism

CONTENT

• Cave paintings
• Photographs
• Book
• Video [images shot by Chauvet et al.]
• TV
• Web site
• Tourist site

TECHNOLOGIES

• Painting
• Photography
• Videotaping
• TV
• Closed-circuit TV and Alarm Systems
• Communications networks

ISSUES

• CAVE = WEB
• Global Media/Communication
• The Image:
  • Art
  • Commodity
• Public Sphere/Private Enterprise: Culture and the State
• Ownership: who owns media and the rights to distribute and profit from it.
• Surveillance
• Simulation and Hyperreality: The Lascaux effect: copy > model (cf. Baudrillard)

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