"Public consciousness" refers to the collective thoughts, awareness, and knowledge that exist among the general public. It represents the shared understanding, beliefs, and perceptions that shape society's perspective on various subjects or issues.
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He has hardly appeared on the public scene when he insists that this is not about him but about preparation for another who has not yet come
into public consciousness.
This shift helped to create a world in which — not only for better but also for worse — equality rather than special preference moved to the center
of public consciousness.
If it was in the
contemporary public consciousness, then it seems safe to assume that it was probably an influence, but direct inspiration may be pushing it a little.
He became famous within a certain world but
entered public consciousness after he raised the price more than 55-fold for Daraprim in September from $ 13.50 per pill to $ 750.
But news organisations need to be canny if they are not to see their own brands squeezed
from public consciousness by the irresistible rise of social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter (at one end) and the growth of the star commentator (at the other).
Less than a year ago, augmented reality — digital effects laid on top of the real world as seen through a computer screen — burst into
public consciousness with the release of the mobile game Pokémon GO, in which players see magical little monsters in the real world using their smartphones.
Both sexual assault and sexual harassment have been thrown into
public consciousness by the recent revelations now gripping the House of Commons.
She's not a great rapper, but she's an amazing personality — she completely owns that she can't behave in public — she first came to
public consciousness when she got famous on «Love and Hip Hop»
Shelton and her star / executive producer, Mark Duplass (Safety Not Guaranteed), have well and truly moved out of the shadow of mumblecore's limitations and into the realm of
wider public consciousness.
I expect, however, that there will be three first - order effects that will be very similar to those that followed the BP spill: 1)
increased public consciousness of the dangers inherent in transporting oil and oil products and more aversion to having these products moved nearby; 2) increased calls for alternatives to oil rather than alternative means of transporting oil; and 3) decreased trust in regulators» and firms» abilities to sufficiently mitigate risks from transporting oil.
As products like Bitcoin continue to
permeate public consciousness, many other governments may end up taking stances along the lines of South Korea, and perhaps even China, to grapple with the risks of what is essentially little more than speculative investment.
A number of them, like Louise Lawler, the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this spring, have
re-entered public consciousness at a moment that is oddly similar to the one in which they first appeared.
With a few exceptions — the Roald Dahl adaptation The Witches (1990), or the non-Vietnam War Joseph Conrad adaptation Heart of Darkness (1993)-- the subsequent films failed to
pierce public consciousness as keenly as his earlier works.
The free to play Battle Royale multiplayer shooter has been making serious waves, not only within the gaming scene but by breaking into the
larger public consciousness.
Goldstein returned to California in the 1990s and virtually disappeared from
public consciousness until his 2002 retrospective at Le Magasin in Grenoble.
While breastfeeding rates in the U.S. are on the rise, most women are unable to reach their breastfeeding goals, and I can't help but hypothesize that keeping nursing out of the public eye (and therefore removed from
general public consciousness) has a lot to do with that.
But what does appear certain is that crime and anti-social behaviour are not
dominating public consciousness as they did prior to the current economic hard times.
Sega came into the
mainstream public consciousness with their hardware and to the greatest extent with Sonic, and the public perception of Sega is often judged by the quality or lack thereof of their mascot platformer.
Let me conclude by pointing out the carbon dioxide problem has begun to invade
public consciousness at a critical time, when the worldwide industrial civilization is beginning to be shaken to its foundations by the disappearance of inexpensive sources of energy.
During a period of time when the phrase «climate change» took root in the
U.S. public consciousness, it appears that the state's output of carbon dioxide considered by scientists the chief culprit in warming the Earth's atmosphere — increased at a rate nearly double the rest of the country's.
Extension energy specialist Lori Marsh is hoping the current
public consciousness gets people excited about conserving energy.
She's just the standard - bearer of a movement that emerged into
public consciousness nearly fifty years ago — a sexually progressive crusade that now boasts extraordinary public support.
Thanks largely to documentary films on the subject, the assumption of Allied culpability has moved beyond the academic arena into the
broader public consciousness.
On those rare occasions when she is admitted to the
Czech public consciousness, as in the Wimbledon telecast, any reference to her past is omitted.
Thus far, however, the UN's intervention has kept itself to the surface of much deeper changes happening in the country and by engaging extremely problematic figures like Abdelhakim Belhadj, it has lost much of its legitimacy in
Libya public consciousness.
Gaza, therefore, has loomed large over the
Israeli public consciousness as compelling proof of the futility of unilateral territorial withdrawals — or, as some would have it, of the folly of territorial concession at all.
Circadian rhythms are back in the
techy public consciousness: A few months ago, GE released the C by GE lightbulb, which shifts from bluish in the morning to orangey in the evening; as of this year, iPhones automatically emit less blue light as the day wears on (and the latest iOs update brought us Bedtime, which sets recurring wake - up and go - to - bed alarms).
With the release of so many high profile titles this holiday season, Resistance 2 has sadly let itself slip away out of
public consciousness just the teensiest bit.
Unlike the crowd imagery that became a popular theme in late nineteenth century painting, here the public is rendered passive and out of focus, suggesting that the notion of an
active public consciousness is obsolete.
The transformative potential of public space has been etched into
public consciousness ever since the ten - day pro-democracy uprising in May 1980, which took place in the streets and squares of Gwangju.
Global warming first exploded into
mass public consciousness in the summer of 1988, when droughts, fires in the Amazon, and heat waves in