Conspiracy Theories Discussion #2
Are We Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? Discussion
1. For this discussion, please watch the documentary Can’t Get You Out of My Head Episode 6: “Are We PIgeon? Or Are We Dancer?” It is available for free on Youtube with subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C4Dn2-Pk3Links to an external site.
2. After viewing the film, please post your reaction in at least 300 words and reply to at least one other student’s post. Use the following to frame your response:
1. According to the film, what is the relationship between media and popular culture and “real” life?
2. In what ways has social media had an impact on global events?
3. How has media affected the spread of conspiracy theories?
4. What is meant by (the title of Adam Curtis’s previous work) “hypernormalisation,”Links to an external site.and do you see evidence of this phenomenon now in the United States, especially now given the pandemic and social/political turmoil?
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