From the category archives:
Media
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Media
And as long as we’re on the topic of bullshit: the degree to which the female-targeted media industrial complex wants to keep these images away
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Media
We are living in the age of number-crunchers, not narrators. On Wall Street, in Silicon Valley, in Bangalore and in Shanghai, the new technologies and
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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[.]
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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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