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 ›
“Listicle” comes from “list + article” A listicle is a short article written in the form of a list. You have most likely seen them with titles like “10 Amazing Facts About Spider-Man” or “7 Of The Oldest Pieces Of… Read More ›
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 ›
Now, what is a quantum of mass media content? The length of any piece of content gets shorter and shorter as the formats for delivering the content get cropped to satisfy the consumers’ ever-shrinking attention spans. But how small can… Read More ›
Will a packaged internet platform defeat the open web? This could either save or bring down the global media industry. The New York Times reports that Facebook has been quietly negotiating a deal with the world’s leading media outlets to… Read More ›
The internet looks full of junk, but the news that people consume is in fact filtered very well. We visit certain websites, click certain links, and follow certain bloggers. In doing so, we convert our preferences into a virtual newspaper,… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
An orchestra differs from an ensemble in that it includes a management function – the conductor. Members of a small ensemble consisting of two or three people tune up by reacting to each other directly. As the ensemble grows in… Read More ›
Over lunch one day an acquaintance of mine criticized my theory of response. “Not everyone writing on the Internet is doing so in order to get a response,” he said. “Take me, for example – I have a blog about… Read More ›
Human as Media 