Human as media: The Emancipation of Authorship is the potential given to the majority of citizens to promote (or publish) their ideas far beyond their immediate circle.
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Ownership of the media: it is not what you think it must be
Traditional media owners may still control the news media, but they no longer control the news. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). Under the idea of ownership as a filter of the Propaganda model, Herman and… Read More ›
The news media: watchdogs prefer the paywalled garden
“What happens when journalism is everywhere?”, Mathew Ingram asked in 2011. Nine years and one Trump term later, the answer is here. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). On November 15, 2011, soon after midnight, the… Read More ›
The Pyramid against the Cloud: Institutions’ perplexity regarding the Net
“Beyond Washington DC, Donald Trump, and impeachment, there lies a great big world – and that world, at the moment, is being convulsed by a remarkable number of revolts against political authority”, writes Martin Gurri. Indeed, who would have thought…. Read More ›
The post-truth world: how social media destroy the absolutism of the “objective” truth
Monotheistic religion, scientific ethic, and writing alienated truth from personal experience. Social media return truth from priests to people. Nobody likes it. In 2016, Oxford Dictionary declared ‘post-truth’ to be the Word of the Year. The dictionary explains the adjective… Read More ›
“We’ve got radio, but not happiness”
“So we’ve got radio already, but we’re still waiting for happiness,” said Soviet satirist Ilya Ilf[i] of the technical progress of the 1930s. The well-known American comedian Louis C.K. expressed a similar sentiment eighty years later on Conan O’Brien’s late-night… Read More ›
3 filters of Internet hygiene: browser settings, the Viral Editor and the Filter Bubble
Is the Internet really just a supplier of rubbish? One of the video presentations of American media thinker Clay Shirky is entitled It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.[i] The problem is not the volume or quality of information, but… Read More ›
Some notes after reading “Human as Media”, by Adam Thomlison
Authors in the field of popular literature bear many of the same marks as the emancipated authors in Andrey Miroshnichenko’s “Human as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship.” Andrey’s book touches on a couple of concepts that I also looked at… Read More ›
The Revolt of the Public and Media Ecology
Marginal notes on Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium (2014) Most Westerners would be surprised to learn that many Easterners consider Tahrir-type protests to be cunning plots by the West… Read More ›
Lenin and billions of man-hours of free time. From passivity of TV consumption to activity of social media contribution
Television swallowed up millions of man-hours of free time by drawing people into a shared passive addiction. Prior to the age of TV, never before had such a large number of people done the same thing at the same time…. Read More ›
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