12-05-15

Institutions.

The aim of this weeks lectorial was to address the frameworks that govern institutions and highlight how they have come about as well as their importance in the modern media world.

Institutions are a social construct. They are interested with the flow of power.

Power = Knowledge.

So if institutions hold power it is assumed they hold knowledge. However I have to disagree with this notion, for not all institutions hold knowledge; or should I say correct knowledge.

1939 – 1945 the Nazi campaign had a hold on Germany and held the power..however, did they hold the knowledge? They stated that Jews were the downfall of western society and therefore had to be eradicated, so that the world could progress. This is obviously not the case and I feel perfectly encapsulates my notion that Institutions (Power) do no necessarily hold knowledge.

– donandsherri