Re:Facebook – You are the Product
by subnaught on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:56PM
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That may be the origin of this particular phrasing, but the idea is much older:
In 1973, the artist Richard Serra made a film called Television Delivers People which declares "You are the product of TV" [0]
Key to Noam Chomsky's _Manufacturing Consent_ (1988) is the idea that advertising-supported media caters to the desires of the advertiser, not the media consumer [1]
In 1973, the artist Richard Serra made a film called Television Delivers People which declares "You are the product of TV" [0]
Key to Noam Chomsky's _Manufacturing Consent_ (1988) is the idea that advertising-supported media caters to the desires of the advertiser, not the media consumer [1]
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Delivers_People [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent