The Cult of the Amateur – Media and The Consumer
Does the media create a cult of the amateur? It would seem that the media insists that the consumer know as little as possible about the products that they are selling. The media is supposed to inform and educate the general public yet they seem to control how much and what people know at all times.
The Fragmented Self and the Media
The media is versed at making us feel so inadequate that we start doubting our beliefs and values after a while. This is really detrimental since we already have such a difficult time to think for ourselves and to assert ourselves. So what the media does is to keep eroding our already vulnerable and, in some cases, fragmented self.
Culture
Dialectic Magazine will also have a significant focus on many aspects of culture. This includes the effects of pop culture on our everyday lives. Culture, according to its definition within anthropology is the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another. Culture also refers to sub-groups of like-minded individuals, for example, in the way that culture can be defined as the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group: the youth culture or the drug culture.
