Moving further into the digital world, we will be able to induce not just familiar but completely new, never before known senses. For example, a banking chip implanted under the skin may, one day, create the sense of a full… Read More ›
Media Ecology
Three threats to journalism
Read the full article Classical journalism is being forced out by: – Guerrilla Journalism, driven by the Viral Editor; – Brand Journalism, driven by content marketing; – Robot Journalism, driven by news algorithms; The third threat, Robot Journalism, poses the… 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 ›
When abundance enables sharing and sharing causes abundance
Here is an excellent slide in the presentation by Gerd Leonhard, a noted futurist, depicting a rabbit surrounded by tons of carrots. The caption states, “Get ready for abundance: distribution (i.e. availability) will no longer be an issue…” Abundance, not… Read More ›
The Quantum Theory of Mass Media (II). Content: a shift from chunks to a flow
The internet has shifted the news from a portioned to a streamed mode of consumption. A news feed in social media is an example of such an information stream. The news teasers in social media represent, in essence, the wave-particle… 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 ›
Text? No longer
Some thoughts on possible obsolescence in the Media Studies Triangle, Ontario Media Literacy Program “In 1988, Ontario became the first educational jurisdiction in the world to mandate media literacy as part of the English curriculum”, reports the “Media Education: Make… Read More ›
Human as Media 