mickey mouse land

i think the whole idea that Disneyland exposes America as a media space is a little too subtle for people to grasp at first, since when you're in Disneyland, Disney is the only one grabbing your attention, and since you're in the park already, they don't have to work that hard to in the first place if you've already forked over the $50 per ticket it took you to get in there.

media spaces strike me as being much more competitive--Disney's exposure of America would be more overt if it was more like Times Square, with Cingular and Cup o'Noodle ads jumping out into your face from all over. the whole idea behind Disneyland teaching us about mediated spaces in America seemed a little silly, because it came across like that's what Disney set out to do in the first place. obviously it's just some person's reading into the existence of Disneyland, so i guess the main issue i have with it is i disagree with it.

other than that, non-places being defined by their content rather than their history or location, that i can dig.