In a unique, and at times highly polemical way, the author demonstrates how the media generally influences thinking and what kind of content they put into peoples' heads. He aims to encourage a better understanding of oneself, one's environment, and the world but above all, a better understanding of freedom, the condition of democracy - or dictatorship. This is probably the first book in the media and communication studies which, through scientific provocation, makes the readers delve deeply into their intelligence, teaches them how to use it, and allows them to decide whether they have a weak, average, or insightful mind . The book sets one of the most important trends: it tells how the media think and how they shape their audiences.
Author(s): Jacek Dabala
Edition: 1
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 194
Tags: Media Studies, Philosophy
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FROM THE AUTHOR
I. POLITICS AND HISTORY
Freedom, community, civilisation
Punishing the opposition
To die full and rich
Language and political villains
Fighting fire with fire
Is history unnecessary?
History as product
Suicidal populists
Identity vs potentiality
Slavery and hypocrisy
A good German from the Third Reich
Politically correct fake news
Google at political gunpoint
The history of humanity: Three periods
Authorities and students
Limits of safe nationalism
The nature of historical conspiracy
The democracy of excluding “your own”
The paradigm of war rape
The secret of russian diplomacy
Balance as salvation
A correction to political correctness
Fairytale prophecies
Political pathology
The state as concentrationp camp
Politicians or mass murderers?
The ketman paradox
Freedom without freedom
The limits of liberalism
The failure of populism
Buying states
Eliminating self-identity
Reasoning made simple
Historical wisdom
Planned messaging
The blockhead of democracy
History of abnormality
Brexit, contempt and logic
Russia’s stupidity
The mechanism of enslavement
II. TECHNOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA
The chip of pleasure or death?
The paradox of the same face
Kicked out
“Improbable” journalism
Dark net without limits
Promotion of lies and obscurantism
Dangerous narratives
Between information and politics
The main task of the media
Information – proportions – detachment
Filter of information objectivity (patent I)
Democracy digitally designed
Fake news and freedom of speech
Political TV format
The omnipotence of speed in the media
“Multi-culti” in the media
Invisible Google
Journalism of the future
Sovereignty of the media
The paradox of balanced information
Media robo-actor
Chinese artificial intelligence
Imagination and impossible technologies
Banning citizens from the media
An invisible brake
Digital surprises
Mobile phone under arrest
Exoskeleton of the future
Journalism of frustration
The meaning of digital words
Media without privacy
Media narcissism
Digital life “on demand”
Silent Microsoft
Paralysis of the media
From capitalism to cybertalism
Critical mass
Internet indolence
Priceless naivety
The paradox of media quality
Politically correct artificial intelligence
Death of new technologies
Fear of the war room
The “other media” generation
Limiting knowledge and the media
Annihilation by the media
Changing face on the media
Optimistic face of the Internet
The media according to communist blockheads
Emotions manufactured by the media
Syndrome of naive journalism
The media face of truth
The phenomenon of fame
Surveillance on the Internet
Ugliness media created
Priceless words
Media pathologies
III. TRADITIONS AND THE LAW
Punishment for media naivety
Swearing taken to court
An American court gone mad?
Sexism on the brain
Risky identity
The right to a dignified life
A parody of law in Germany
Benefits of the dating apps
Ostentatious showing off
Epidemic of to be or not to be
Immediately or never
Feminism and utopia
Expression of true femininity
Two kinds of old age
The paradox of equality in death
Legal depreciation of women
Diagnosis
Happiness otherwise
Ultraorthodox spleen
Legal vapours of misandry
Vivisection Hindu style
Media whipping
The vile nature of the state
The cruel sound of truth
Consequences of terror
Artists above all others
Scarcity of dreams
Bot above the law?
Enclaves of lawlessness
Sexual communicating
The phenomenon of shame
Ambivalence of dictatorship
The syndrome of poverty
Paedophilia and feelings
Eviction from life
Louts and communicating
Unpredictable incels
Prescription for voters
Backpackers and freedom
The right to freedom
Discrimination of freedom
Social cretinism of an obscurantist
Toilet surveillance
The arrogance of limitation period
The value of stereotypes
Democracy’s naivety behind the scenes
Benefits of lying
Axiology of inferiority
An antidote to blockheads
IV. SCIENCE, INTELLECT AND EMOTIONS
Epiphanies of love
The priceless limits of education
Infantile “what if…”
Theory of time and education
The thinking of the new human
The delights of artificial intelligence
The identity of an intellectual
Climax in film and in life
The phenomenon of ownership
Obligations towards geniuses
Condition of warring idiocy
Education, chance, fate
Stupidity grows by itself
The birth of error
Sexy death sentence
Love in the media
Putting a brake on women
Showing off, eminence, brilliance
Naivety and certainty
Trains and emotional vivisection
Algorithms against the law
Abnormal normality
The phenomenon of water and food
Survival test
The logic of mindlessness
The paradox of irreversibility
The Chernobyl syndrome
Immortal goal
Love is communication
Power of manipulation
Facebook sees souls
Communicating and sex
Freedom without boundaries
The syndrome of parting
The identity of fools
Craving for authority
Banality and epiphanies of transgression
Happiness on a tray
Appetite for enslavement
Guru against guru
Education via the media
Stupidity without question
Paradox of annihilation
Hungering for subservience
The stupidest of stupid
Opinions and thinking
Intelligence crunch
Legal stupidity
V. RELIGION AND FAITH
Naive idealism
The church, advertising, the G spot
The essence of evangelism
Religions and aggression
Religion without imagination
Sexual church
Orthodox sex
VI. MEDICINE
True science
Life and medicine
A medical paradox
Bibliography
About the author
Index
Series index