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After spending most of time researching for the dissertation, I can defenetly say that I'm enjoying this more then I originally thought.
Andre the Giant is following me at every step and the phrase "Obey the Giant" is now my motto. When I started this all thing I didn't intend on making it personal, but now, although the approach I originally started this project with, was more of a scientific one, I can feel it in every moment of my day, and I keep asking myself where this whole experience will bring me.
is not a dissertation anymore, it's me wanting to prove my theory, something that had always been with me, the idea that forces more powerful then I could ever think, are in fact manipulating me, as the greaest part of the human beings that lives in the "civilized world".
the fact that this forces are human-made is what really makes my curiosity work, being in a industry that has as its core the exploitation of the media, make me want to know the real effect that my ideas, pieces of and projects, can have on the people that are watching or using them, I want to know why, although knowing that I'm being used, in the very moment that I buy a pair of shoes that I love, I still want to buy them and after making my purchaise, I feel even content with it. I want to know why even realizing that this world doesn't work as it's supposed to, I so easely get distracted and end up forgetting about it.
I want to understant this system and the facination that it has on most of the people I know, that's my intent.

Dissertation Structure, questions and considerations

- History of television, how did the influence of this media changed after the second World war? (example: Italian television, brief history of Italian public Tv services RAI and private services to cable TV).

- Propaganda, Advertising and Art: analysis of the role of art in propaganda and advertising.

- Media excess: the birth of the new media, information highways, the role of the internet. Situation of the internet throughout the world.

- Distraction, freedom of ignore information or to get them in the way that makes us feel more comfortable.

- The comfortable zone: what does it mean to have all this means to ignore the truth or to see it in a less worrying way, how this affect us in our choices and everyday life.

- Freedom? Is it really the era of free information and global communication or just a cage where we are kept? (example: credit crunch, war and Palestine, do we really worry about what’s happening or are we just over exposed to information regarding it, that we feel like it’s something that we are safe from?).


A bit confusing? I guessed so... well:

These are the guide lines to my dissertation and basically the way I'm gonna look into the propaganda's issues and the way it affect our lifes and decision, still translating the first 1000 words (I'm writing it in italian, it's easier ^_^), I'm confident they'll be up at the beginning of next week.
I'm still looking for books, images, videos etc., that I can refer to in order to prove my thesis, the first bit will be more of a phylosophical reflection, to then expose the reason behind the whole line of thoughts.

I'll be happy to take on board any suggestion or advise, have a nice week!

Alex