From the category archives:
Media
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Media
The only thing I’d add to this is that the obsession of some over Mediaite’s “Power Grid” pretty much confirms something I’ve long suspected—That of…
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Media
This wiki-oligarchy presents its own sort of dangers. The movers and shakers of Wikipedia are largely hidden from public view and unaccountable for editorial decisions.…
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Media
This, then, is the goal: a system of news that realizes Dewey’s prescient notion—a framework that combines the participatory value of passionate belief with the…
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Culture
Stealth marketing, direct advertisement and product placement work only on the clueless, and our immersive, hippo-like wallowing in the marketplace serves only to make us…
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Culture
So this is what it’s come to: when an attention gift economy seems more practical and sustainable than an exchange economy for information commodities[.]
via A…
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Culture
Is the screen the new paper? Will publishing houses go the way of the old-fashioned record store? Is digital delivery the new bookstore? Is Google…
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Culture
And why, in our modern media culture that thrives on contrarianism, is there not substantial scepticism about the web – not the slightest suggestion that…
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Culture
What is less clear is how people, ideas and practices become prominent in the first place, Schaller says. In baseball, performance is likely to provide…
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