Television has had a big impact on international communication through ?

Shon Almquist: Television has had a big impact on international communication through the internet. The other part of your homework you'll just have to do yourself. The term culture industry was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”, of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods â€" films, radio programmes, magazines, etc. â€" that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity. Consumption of the easy pleasures of popular culture, made available by the mass communications media, renders people docile and content, no matter how difficult their economic circumstances. The inherent danger of the culture industry is the cultivation of false psychological needs that can only be met and satisfied by the products of capitalism; th! us Adorno and Horkheimer especially perceived mass-produced culture as dangerous to the more technically and intellectually difficult high arts. In contrast, true psychological needs are freedom, creativity, and genuine happiness, which refer to an earlier demarcation of human needs, established by Herbert Marcuse.Internet is part of the mass communication and its effects are very positive....Show more