If you want to dig in really deep, Horkheimer and Adorno wrote about the “Culture Industry” in the mid-20th century and how even outside of working hours, we are still forced to perform a sort of labor in the consumption of media through our leisure time, movies, tv, music, etc. It’s not so much manipulation of the obvious media like news and such, but a far more subtle mechanism that tells you not only what to desire, but how to desire. The whole thing may be more complicated than you want, and this was a very reductive summary, but I find it to be prescient even 75ish years later.
This isn’t bad. It has some counterpoints as well. The trouble with the concept is that the original material is a philosophical product, and most material online is behind academic paywalls or just some dude’s blog. Hope this is useful!
If you want to dig in really deep, Horkheimer and Adorno wrote about the “Culture Industry” in the mid-20th century and how even outside of working hours, we are still forced to perform a sort of labor in the consumption of media through our leisure time, movies, tv, music, etc. It’s not so much manipulation of the obvious media like news and such, but a far more subtle mechanism that tells you not only what to desire, but how to desire. The whole thing may be more complicated than you want, and this was a very reductive summary, but I find it to be prescient even 75ish years later.
I sincerely mean no sarcasm in this but that has got to be the best answer yet. Thank you very much and for typing it out.
I did find this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry
But if you have another recommendation I’m interested too.
This isn’t bad. It has some counterpoints as well. The trouble with the concept is that the original material is a philosophical product, and most material online is behind academic paywalls or just some dude’s blog. Hope this is useful!
Thank you, I appreciate that. Sci-hub often has those papers available that are made hard to access by academia.