E201. Thomas de Zengotita Thinks The Human Mind Is Not Made To Ingest This Much Media

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

Conversations with people from all walks of life.

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Mediated Series - Part 4: Published in 2005, Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It , became Bridget's bible for understanding the changing media landscape and how it is affecting our society and behavior. Now she sits down with author Thomas de Zengotita for a multi-part series discussing the book chapter by chapter. In Part 4 Bridget and Thomas discuss the extent to which children are fluent in mediated culture, the speed with which slang spreads, how the process of curating their social media profiles is kind of publicly inventing who they are, and how people can feel a kind of nostalgia for times they never lived in because they've lived in it representationally. They also cover the verbing of words, like "adulting," and how when you verb a word you're displaying the fact that you are aware of yourself as playing the role, how we've moved from risk-averse to risk-less world and there's an entire economy around taking away all risk, the value of psychobabble, when you need to watch out for the curmudgeon factor, how misery is enhanced by online comparisons of your own life with other lives, and why Thomas is more optimistic now than he was 20 years ago. Sponsor links: Helix - https://helixsleep.com/?walkin Progressive Insurance - https://pgrs.in/3Dp5ZIW

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Watkins. Welcome with Bridget Pettasy. I'm Bridget Pettasy, and you are welcome.
0:18.0	You know the drill. Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:24.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:27.0	If you like our work and want to support us, the best way to do that is join Fettasy.com.
0:32.0	You'll get access to behind-the-scenes content, outtakes, discounts on merch, and the ability to submit questions for some of our upcoming guests.
0:41.0	Support your favorite scrappy little internet heroes at Fettasy.com.
0:48.0	Hey guys, Jay Cutler, starting a new podcast called Uncut with Jay Cutler.
0:52.0	Most of you know me from the NFL, some of you have seen me on Instagram, and some of you know me from the reality TV world.
0:58.0	Each week I'm taking you along with me as we discuss football, training topics, and whatever is going on in my life each week.
1:04.0	I'm bringing along people that are special in my life.
1:07.0	Former teammates, friends, and some new people that like and respect.
1:11.0	That's what you're supposed to do, right? Podcasting? I think I'm doing this right.
1:15.0	Can't wait to get started with you. Go subscribe now. Uncut with Jay Cutler, Apple Podcast, Podcast 1, and Spotify.
1:23.0	Or wherever you get your podcast.
1:27.0	This week on the podcast, we continue our series, doing a chapter by chapter discussion with author Thomas Desengotita about his book mediated.
1:37.0	Thomas's book, how the media shapes your world and the way you live in it was instrumental in my life and informing how I view basically everything through the lens of this book.
1:50.0	There was a little bit of a snafu and that we released chapter three before we released chapter two.
1:57.0	So last week was actually chapter three, and this week is chapter two.
2:02.0	So it's a little bit reversed in the order.
2:05.0	And so this week we'll be talking about the cult of the child and more talk about teenagers and so much more love the discussions with Thomas.
2:16.0	He's just the best.
2:19.0	All right, time back with Thomas Desengotita and we are continuing our series of talking about his book mediated and going through a chapter by chapter.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Conversations with people from all walks of life., and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Conversations with people from all walks of life. and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.