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U2

Mass Communications and Society Tuesday, April 18, 2006
University of South Florida BSN 1100, 8am - 9:15

Guest Speaker: B.E. Johnston
Title: Media Convergence and Criticism: A brief survey of U2's Zoo TV Concert Series

INTRODUCTION
This show is a critique of postmodern culture's primary delusional artifact, Television. It is also an excellent example of what we've studied in here, called "Media Convergence." Thus, this brief lecture about U2's Zoo TV concert series serves as a good review of "Media Convergence" and it foreshadows this course's concluding section on Media Criticism.

Excerpt from my treaties: U2 Into The Labyrinth: A rhetorical analysis of U2's Zoo TV concert series:

"U2's Zoo TV concert series (Feb. 1992 – Nov. 1993) was a unique rhetorical event that dramatically engaged the social fragmentation and technological embodiment of contemporary life. Critical responses celebrated Zoo TV's parody of the postmodern condition. However, within the......


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