About this episode
The episode explores the complex relationship between publicity, media, and societal transformation through various philosophical and social science perspectives.
Are you a lobby strategist? Do you negotiate with yourself? Which taste group do you belong to? What are you allowed to see? Do you pay to publish? Do the algorithms that serve you change with you? How are counterpublics generated? Is society constantly transforming itself? What role does capital play? Does media influence human rationality? Are you able to tell real discourse and propaganda apart? Was there ‘public opinion’ (say) a 1000 years ago? Does public sphere have capitalistic roots? What happens to niche ideas in an information supermarket? Are newspapers opinion ‘takers’? Have most modern societies moved from being axiomatic to algorithmic? Can one have societies without a moral discourse? What happens to our base instincts? Do you have the ability of have your own individual opinion? However, are niche morals undesirable? Do ads serve a symbolic norm-making function as well? ‘How’ do you go after your ‘target’ audience? Is it alright if mass media becomes ‘hyper personal’? Is the public just a sum of the all the individual echo chambers? &, what is the kind of public that we want? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using ideas from philosophy (Dr. Muzaffar Ali…
People in this episode
Guests: Prof. Narendar Pani, Dr. Muzaffar Ali Malla, Dr. Vibodh Parthasarathi
Topics covered
- publicity
- media influence
- society transformation
- capitalism
- public opinion
Keywords
- lobby strategist
- counterpublics
- niche ideas
- moral discourse
- hyper personal media
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Bangalore, Delhi
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