The UCS Academy Lecture Series
IPSWICH
SUFFOLK NEW COLLEGE
21/02/2012 5:30PM to 7:30PM
21st February 2012
Professor Tony McNulty – Guest Lecture
Title: All Watched Over by Media of Loving Grace: Politics, press and public policy processes
Synopsis:
The issue in both Richard Brautigan’s poem, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace and Adam Curtis’s TV documentary series of the same name is that the relationship between human beings and machines defines our modernity. For Brautigan, the relationship is benign and beneficial to the human race, whilst Curtis argues that machines/computers have failed to liberate us and add to our common failings and dysfunctions.
In this lecture, Tony McNulty will look at the relationship between the worlds of politics and the media. Using real-life examples from recent politics, he will analyse both the antagonistic element of such a relationship when short-term needs diverge, how sometimes there is a realisation of shared needs and a mutualisation of the relationship and how the recent hacking scandals and Leveson inquiry will challenge all sides to rethink the relationship in the future.
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