their publics and ours final
TRANSCRIPT
Their Publics and Ours: PSAs and the
Constructions of Publicness
presentersBrian Ganter + Lori MacIntosh
Imagining Citizenship: Digital Literacies Symposium,
Nov. 2-6, 2009
Part I: What is the “Public” in PSAs?
Defining the PSA: the Public Service Announcement
Part II: What is the “Public” in PSAs?
Where is the PSA Coming From and Where is it Going?
who is a
public?
who is a
what is a public?
who is a
what is a public?
where is the
what binds a public together?
reason ?
emotion ?
memory ?
bodies ?
ideological interests ?
national publics
activist publics
global publics
national publics
"[T]he national culture industry is also in the business of generating paramnesias, images that organize consciousness, not by way of explicit propaganda, but by replacing and simplifying memories people actually have with image traces of political experience about which people can have political feelings that link them to other citizens and to patriotism. – L. Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to
Washington City, 57
activist publics
global publics
Conclusion: The PSA and its Futures