Jurnal ASPIKOM
Vol 1, No 1 (2010): Juli 2010

Post Media Literacy: Menyaksikan Kuasa Media Bersama Michel Foucault

Iswandi Syahputra (Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kali Jaga Yogyakarta)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Jan 2017

Abstract

This article would like to present Michel Foucault’s idea concerning Knowledge and Power in media industry. As a contemporary intellectual, Foucault’s thought has a unique style of postmodernism. His thought had gone beyond traditional critical theory whose trying to disclose the relation of power and economic behind the ideology of media. Foucault’s thought had given new perspective in understanding how the media produce truth under tightly control process into something that seems normal. With the assumption of media has the power to create mass culture, which has to be studied critically by media literacy approach, Foucault’s thought had given new space of discursive. An alternative thought on how to estimate the work of mass media as supervisor of truth and creator of information trough normalization practice.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

aspikom

Publisher

Subject

Social Sciences

Description

Jurnal ASPIKOM is a national journal that aims to develop Communication Science by disseminating research in various fields of Communication, including media and journalism, new media and communication technologies, applied communications, public relations, and marketing ...