Ladder
of Abstraction is double edged sword of media that can make the particular
story attractive, but also can drive the story far from reality. Abstraction is
something that exists only as an idea and ladder here indicates the level of
the abstraction from most concrete to most abstract. For example, there’s an
apple. It’s an apple but through the ladder of abstraction, as it goes by, it
can be perceived as a fruit, food, and finally just a thing. Here’s another
example regarding communication perspective. Concrete phenomena is that Charley
picked up the wallet in the friend’s bag when his friend wasn’t at the seat in
the Morning star library. His friend asked to bring his wallet to eat lunch. As
soon as he took it, he ran down the stairs because his friend urged it. Let’s
see the process of ladder of abstraction of this event from most concrete to
most abstract. This perceived that Charley takes wallet from bag on empty seat.
Label applied is that suddenly a Charley took the other person’s wallet when
the seat was empty. Judgement is that Charly is a thief. Action is that calling
to the police. Through the ladder of abstraction, the reality can be curved
easily.
As a Particular media story in
Korea, when Korea was in the regime of president Jeon near 1980s, he tried to
control the media and people to keep his authority which was gotten from coup
d’État. Social purification movement is one of the main program to fulfill it.
He tried to control all part in the society even media and education.
Outwardly, its purpose was to purifying criminals in the Korean society
however, many politicians who oppose to the current regime or innocent people
are captured and punished. Even a person run a free class to promote literacy,
it could be perceived as a suspicious person who gathered people and teaches
something, and it could be judged that he is actually teaching communism to the
people, and finally he is punished as a traitor(also newspaper says so). Total
citizens captured by police and army without warrant were over 60,000 and the
casualties were about 3,000. This is such a terrible case of usage of ladder of
abstraction. Who has power such as government or media must be very careful
about the norm of ladder of abstraction, and people should judge whether
there’s severe gap with reality or not when they got certain information.
References
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