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The eternal failure of selling news
News itself is a very paradoxical commodity. It always ‘needs’ to be read; it is always in some kind of demand from below. But there is always someone from above who wants to pay for certain news to be delivered… Read More ›
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Postjournalism: Subjective modality in the guise of objective modality
Postjournalism passes off the opinion as the fact, the connotation as the denotation, the attitude as the referent. To put it simply, in postjournalism, reporting is commenting. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). Subjective modality in… Read More ›
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Philanthropy funding of journalism: noble corruption
Foundation funding of the news media comes with a price. It quietly pushes journalism towards activism. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). Funding journalism by foundations is perceived as a positive tendency because no one’s individual… Read More ›
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McLuhan and resettling into the digital
“McLuhan foresaw that electronic media gave humans the quality of a disembodied, angel-like spirit, which happens to us right now when we literally resettle to social media or video games and operate our digital selves.” Mike Hodgkinson published in Post… Read More ›
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The news media: manufacturing anger, not consent. Herman-Chomsky’s Propaganda model revised
When Herman and Chomsky described their Propaganda model, the news media were paid predominantly by advertisers and therefore tended to beautify reality. But advertising is gone. The media try to attract reader revenue. But this is a very peculiar reader… Read More ›
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Media ecology ›
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Media literacy and media engineering to fight polarization
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The Mind Map of Media Ecology
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Future of journalism ›
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Disinformation is no danger. Fear polarization
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Subscription solicited as donation: a new cause of media bias
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Decline of newspapers ›
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Whoever will pay for journalism, they will pay not for journalism
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The medium is the breakage
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