The idea that social movements are off the screen in a mass media world is simply not accurate. What i'm much more concerned about is our world where everything is on the screen, but nothing is real. If you ask me what i think the most important thing that happened in the back end of the twentieth century was, i'm actually going to say, act up. Woud eiam? Sorry. Act up.
In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred Turner, a professor of communications at Stanford University, but their work had a profound impact on public opinion. They produced groundbreaking films and art exhibitions. They urged viewers to stop, reflect and think for themselves, and in so doing, they developed a set of design principles that reimagined how media could make us feel more calm, reflective, empathetic; in short, more democratic.