Evil media and the metaphor of a gray zone. Lecture for media studies students at University of Zagreb

KOBÍKOVÁ, Zuzana. Evil media and the metaphor of a gray zone. Lecture for media studies students at University of Zagreb. In University of Zagreb. 2015.

Basic information

• Original name: Evil media and the metaphor of a gray zone. Lecture for media studies students at University of Zagreb
• Authors: KOBÍKOVÁ, Zuzana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: University of Zagreb, 2015.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Requested lectures
• Field of Study: 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
• Country of publisher: Croatia
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/15:00084293
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: evil media; gray zone; social media; ambiguity
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

One of the most provocative current contributions to think through possibilities of understanding media is a study Towards Evil Media Studies, 2007, written by Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey and their subsequent book Evil media, 2012. The authors are inspired by a controversial legacy of Niccolo Machiavelli, Baltasar Gracian and especially Arthur Schopenhauer and his Eristic Dialectic: the Art of Being Right (1830–1831). There is a whole network of complex and unnoticed relationships among programmed media and their users. Fuller and Goffey lead us to imagine this environment as a gray zone that provides space for manipulation. The lecture presents the history of the metaphor of gray zone as well as examples of grayness and evil in contemporary social media.

Links

• MUNI/A/1153/2014, interní kód MU: Name: Soudobé problémy a minulé podoby filozofické diskuse

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A