…before I carry on with this analysis, I think it is important to suggest this kind of relationship between the media and the self. I think there is an absent of personal interaction in these relationships—an obvious power-relation inherent or implicit in these relationship that needs to be identified. Dialogue is negated in these interactions—and what I mean by dialogue is there are no spaces for the self to engage directly with these images or sounds. Meaning, there is certainly a one-way reception in which the self digests what is given to them musically and visually in a way which does not allow them to personally engage through making suggestions as to what it is they are faced with. They either like it or dislike what they perceive but in such a way that their musical taste are not considered in these processes—such that there are no individual presence in these spaces, no agency….
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