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WELCOME TO KEERTHIKA SHOW. PRODUCED BY: KEERTHIKA LOGESWARAN, SANDY WONG, TALIB BENSOUDA, JOHN QUINSAY. ARTICLE 1 The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid Author: Michael Ignatif ARTICLE 2 The World We Want Author: Mark Kingwell. NARRATIVES.
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WELCOME TO KEERTHIKA SHOW PRODUCED BY: KEERTHIKA LOGESWARAN, SANDY WONG, TALIB BENSOUDA, JOHN QUINSAY
ARTICLE 1 The Stories We Tell: Television and Humanitarian Aid Author: Michael Ignatif ARTICLE 2 The World We Want Author: Mark Kingwell
NARRATIVES Moral stories tells us what we want to hear Metanarrative fitting each local event into a larger picture Chaos narrative most pervasive and persuasive Socialist Internationalism
THREE DISTORTIONS Television turns moral narratives into entertainment. E.g. War in Iraq
THREE DISTORTIONS (cont’d) Television turns political narratives into humanitarian drama.
THREE DISTORTIONS (cont’d) Television individualizes – it takes part for the whole.
HUMANITARIAN COMMERCIAL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF_gjd3ysbE&feature=related
FOUR KINDS OF MOTIVATION International situation Dismal state of sovereignty What it means to be a citizen: Cities Participation in political activity.
CITIZENSHIP IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD Socrates: society vs. state, (just citizen) follow the state & it’s laws. Montaigne: how do we make sense of the virtues of citizenship in a diverse world? Benjamin & Adorno: Political awareness in a world dominated by capitalism. No individualism; difficult to exercise citizenship
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REFERENCE http://www.hiconference2008.org/typo3temp/pics/S_cb7bf895c6.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46h2jBqk_A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF_gjd3ysbE&feature=related