nanopublic: How the NAS helped turn Natalie Portman into a physicist
4 days ago by tsuomela
In many cases, our views of reality are not based on personal experience. We find politicians personable or despicable, even though we have never met them in person. And we feel intimately familiar with landmarks in foreign countries even though we have never visited them. For many of us, the same is true for scientists working in a lab. We have mental images of how they act or what they look like, even though few of us have never been in a lab watching a scientist at work. The tricky part: Many of those images may have little to do with reality.
science
public-understanding
media
cultivation
imagery
public
perception
communication
from delicious
4 days ago by tsuomela
'Gaia' Scientist Reverses Climate Predictions | Global Warming Controversy | LiveScience
5 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Lovelock, who introduced the Gaia Hypothesis describing life on Earth as a vast self-regulating organism some 40 years ago, also stated that since 2000, warming had not happened as expected.
"The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now," Lovelock told MSNBC.com in an interview.
While warming may not have reached Lovelock's expectations, it is clearly happening"
interview
climate-change
global-warming
environment
media
celebrity
expertise
elites
controversy
from delicious
"The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now," Lovelock told MSNBC.com in an interview.
While warming may not have reached Lovelock's expectations, it is clearly happening"
5 weeks ago by tsuomela
Ashley Judd Slaps Media in the Face for Speculation Over Her ‘Puffy’ Appearance - The Daily Beast
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Ashley Judd’s 'puffy' appearance sparked a viral media frenzy. But, the actress writes, the conversation is really a misogynistic assault on all women. P"
feminism
media
celebrity
gender
body
from delicious
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
What if Interactivity is the New Passivity? Jonathan Sterne / McGill University | Flow
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
"What if all the bad things that media critics have been said about passivity for the past century or two are now equally applicable to all the demands to interact, to participate? What if interactivity is now one of the central hinges through which power works? In many moments today, the most compliant gesture we can make is to consent to interact on the terms presented to us by our software and machines. "
media
critique
criticism
passivity
interaction
interactive
television
social-media
critical-theory
from delicious
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
AmericanScience: A Team Blog: Lovecraft, Science, and Epistemic Subcultures
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
"Thinking about these communities reminded me of Lovecraft’s earlier interactions. In some ways, amateur journalism and epistolary circles of Lovecraft’s day were not unlike the blogs and webpages that Less Wrong and the chemtrailers use. (Yes, I know the dangers of cross-temporal and cross-technological comparisons.) Still, I think there is much to explore about how such groups produce and distribute their knowledge against the background of an epistemic status quo. If scientists have their journals—as Alex Csiszar has been exploring—the laity have their amateur journalism and their blogs. And such spaces give historians of science and technology and STS scholars a chance to examine and probe the practices of epistemic subcultures." Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http://americanscience.blogspot.com/2012/04/lovecraft-science-and-epistemic.html
sts
science
media
amateur
history
technology
insider
outsider
boundaries
expertise
laypeople
journalism
from delicious
6 weeks ago by tsuomela
Lance Mannion: Its our own fault for not being happy with our Happy Meals
12 weeks ago by tsuomela
"That’s just the way it is, these things happen, nothing to be done about it, and if it means that most of us have to spend our golden years pushing brooms or bagging groceries, well, at least we have the consolation of knowing we’re not as bad off as those children in China and we can stop off at McDonalds on our way home from work we’re damn lucky to have to pick up a Value Meal to eat while watching the flat screen TV that only has ten payments left on it until it’s ours."
politics
economics
rhetoric
class
journalism
media
from delicious
12 weeks ago by tsuomela
Twitter, NPR’s Morning Edition, and Dreams of Flatland | metaLAB (at) Harvard
february 2012 by tsuomela
Here’s the thing: Twitter is part of the “real world.” The Internet is part of the world.
In association with Wellman et al.’s work on the geography of networks, a rich and informative research domain takes shape. With Morning Edition we want a broad reading of Internet scholarship
twitter
social-media
internet
media
journalism
framing
description
social-science
research
geography
from delicious
In association with Wellman et al.’s work on the geography of networks, a rich and informative research domain takes shape. With Morning Edition we want a broad reading of Internet scholarship
february 2012 by tsuomela
Newspapers, Paywalls, and Core Users « Clay Shirky
february 2012 by tsuomela
"To understand newspapers’ 15-year attachment to paywalls, you have to understand “Everyone must pay!” not just as an economic assertion, but as a cultural one. Though the journalists all knew readership would plummet if their paper dropped imported content like Dear Abby or the funny pages, they never really had to know just how few people were reading about the City Council or the water main break. Part of the appeal of paywalls, even in the face of their economic ineffectiveness, was preserving this sense that a coupon-clipper and a news junkie were both just customers, people whose motivations the paper could serve in general, without having to understand in particular."
journalism
media
publishing
publisher
economics
money
paywall
from delicious
february 2012 by tsuomela
Mythbusters Banned From Discussing RFID By Visa And Mastercard | Disinformation
february 2012 by tsuomela
Host Adam Savage of Mythbusters tells how Visa, Mastercard, and Discover had the Discovery Channel put the kibosh on an episode that would have revealed just how “trackable and hackable” the RFID chips found in many credit cards are. It’s a telling example of how corporate advertisers serve as the gatekeepers of mainstream media/entertainment:
rfid
business
advertising
corporatism
television
media
from delicious
february 2012 by tsuomela
National Public Rodeo | Business | Vanity Fair
january 2012 by tsuomela
When most people hear “NPR,” they think Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg, Robert Siegel, and for some on the far right, all that is wrong with the mainstream liberal media. But beneath the veneer of the "Minnesota nice," a simmering battle has been waged, and in the balance hangs NPR’s future and perhaps even its soul—as either a nonpartisan defender of in-depth journalism or a target of the partisan sniping of the sound-bite era. David Margolick explores how NPR’s management managed to squander the advantages of the national dole, deep-pocketed donors, a roster of top-notch reporters, and the loyalty of legions of devoted Click and Clack fans—and whether it can recover from the annus horribilis of 2011.
media
journalism
race
celebrity
pundits
media-reform
management
controversy
bias
right-wing
public-radio
from delicious
january 2012 by tsuomela
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
january 2012 by tsuomela
"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in. "
solitude
silence
computers
technology-effects
social
media
behavior
creativity
novelty
brainstorming
business
from delicious
january 2012 by tsuomela
“Low information voters” and the political press » Pressthink
november 2011 by tsuomela
The blind spot is the point at which voters stop paying attention because the costs of figuring out what’s really going on are too high. But we could also define it as they point at which the press reverts to savviness because engaging the broader electorate is beyond its means or intention. When the parties discern where that point is, it’s open season for players who know how the system works.
political-science
politics
journalism
media
failure
november 2011 by tsuomela
Stumbling and Mumbling: The decline of newspapers
october 2011 by tsuomela
"What I mean is that it’s tempting to blame newspapers’ troubles on the rise of the internet and on regulation. But I suspect there are other things at work."
news
journalism
media
decline
future
internet
online
from delicious
october 2011 by tsuomela
OCCUPY WALL STREET (the theory) - Global Guerrillas
october 2011 by tsuomela
"OCCUPY WALL STREET (the theory)
Really simple:
Occupy Wall Street is an open source protest.
This type of protest has been very effective over the last year in toppling regimes in north Africa. It's proving relatively successful in the US too.
Open source protest is an organizational technique. Probably the only organizational technique that can assemble a massive crowd in today's multiplexed environment. "
protests
activism
wall-street
capitalism
social-media
social-movement
media
technology
open-source
from delicious
Really simple:
Occupy Wall Street is an open source protest.
This type of protest has been very effective over the last year in toppling regimes in north Africa. It's proving relatively successful in the US too.
Open source protest is an organizational technique. Probably the only organizational technique that can assemble a massive crowd in today's multiplexed environment. "
october 2011 by tsuomela
Is protest in America at a turning point?
october 2011 by tsuomela
"Many journalists, it seems, pay lip service to the First Amendment, but turn their backs or grow disdainful when people actually exercise these rights in the streets. In such a climate, idealistic activists such as those at the tar sands pipeline and Wall Street protests, obviously, can be safely ignored by the major news media or condescended to as not being rooted in the practical, real world. Real grown-ups don’t need to protest."
media
media-reform
journalism
failure
protests
activism
wall-street
progressive
fairness
first-amendment
american
from delicious
october 2011 by tsuomela
OCCUPY WALL STREET (the theory) - Global Guerrillas
october 2011 by tsuomela
"Occupy Wall Street is an open source protest.
This type of protest has been very effective over the last year in toppling regimes in north Africa. It's proving relatively successful in the US too.
Open source protest is an organizational technique. Probably the only organizational technique that can assemble a massive crowd in today's multiplexed environment."
protests
activism
wall-street
capitalism
social-media
social-movement
media
technology
open-source
This type of protest has been very effective over the last year in toppling regimes in north Africa. It's proving relatively successful in the US too.
Open source protest is an organizational technique. Probably the only organizational technique that can assemble a massive crowd in today's multiplexed environment."
october 2011 by tsuomela
McKenzie Wark on Occupy Wall Street: 'How to Occupy an Abstraction' - VersoBooks.com
october 2011 by tsuomela
"The taking of a tiny square in downtown New York hardly impinges on the power of the vector. It doesn't even inconvenience the minions who work in the surrounding offices, but the actual occupation is connected to a more abstract kind of occupation, and the slightest hint that it could spread disturbs the fragile constitutions of the rentier sensibility."
protests
activism
wall-street
capitalism
social-media
social-movement
media
technology
october 2011 by tsuomela
All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook’s new features, and nothing will ever be the same, and all I can do is sit here and weep at the beauty and magic that Mark Zuckerberg has brought to this world | Real Dan Lyons Web Site
september 2011 by tsuomela
And I keep trying to think this all through. What are the implications when I can now listen to the same piece of music with someone else on Facebook? What does it mean when I can watch an episode of Breaking Bad that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is also watching? How does the human brain begin to rewire itself to accommodate so much change in such a short period of time? Do national borders matter anymore? Can governments still control their citizens? How will science and medicine adapt to accommodate the new reality in which we live? Damn you, Mark Zuckerberg, you brilliant god-man, and at the same time, Thank you. Thank you for not just seeing the future but bringing it to us. My life, at last, has meaning, and I now find new reason to live.
humor
satire
technology
facebook
media
journalism
september 2011 by tsuomela
Join Doctoral Students in Examining the Intersections Among Media, Technology and Democracy | Age of Engagement | Big Think
september 2011 by tsuomela
This semester I am teaching a doctoral seminar on the many important questions and trends related to media, technology and democracy. In this post, I introduce several major questions and topics and provide the reading list for the course, with links to where the articles are freely available online.
syllabi
communication
science
technology
media
democracy
september 2011 by tsuomela
Views Differ on Shape of Earth, Climate Edition | Mother Jones
september 2011 by tsuomela
But it's not just a phenomenon of the right. It's a phenomenon of everybody, including those who get their news from the mainstream media. It's what happens when reporters insist that every story about climate change has to include a quote from at least one or two skeptics to "balance out" the other scientists. Is it any wonder that the public is so wildly misinformed?
environment
media
journalism
balance
climate-change
global-warming
polls
september 2011 by tsuomela
The Balanced U.S. Press
september 2011 by tsuomela
"We propose a new method for measuring the relative ideological positions of newspapers, voters, interest groups, and political parties. The method uses data on ballot propositions. We exploit the fact that newspapers, parties, and interest groups take positions on these propositions, and the fact that citizens ultimately vote on them. We find that, on average, newspapers in the U.S. are located almost exactly at the median voter in their states. Newspapers also tend to be centrist relative to interest groups. "
media
media-studies
ownership
bias
ideology
newspaper
journalism
september 2011 by tsuomela
The Truant Muse • I know you don't want to hear this.
august 2011 by tsuomela
But - here’s what drives me crazy as a reporter - did you say anything about it before? It doesn’t seem a coincidence that voter apathy, financial illiteracy, and government spending have all risen in tandem. As reporters, we’re trying to inform you so that you can be a fully functioning citizen. We tell you: here’s the debate. Here’s what people are saying on both sides. And too often, the response we get back is, “how DARE you tell me what those people think? La la la la, I can’t hear you!”
economics
recession
crisis
media
journalism
report
reform
knowledge
august 2011 by tsuomela
ZCommunications | On Working Class Invisibility by Paul Street | ZNet Article
july 2011 by tsuomela
"These are the ones without champions and also without real cultural existence in the U.S. The reality of working class life is invisible, or close to it, in the nation’s corporate mediated sociopolitical culture. When is the last time you saw a decent, widely watched network sitcom or drama about any among the faceless Americans Blow tried to remind Times readers about?"
class
economics
poverty
america
culture
media
entertainment
labor
july 2011 by tsuomela
Phoebe's Home Page
july 2011 by tsuomela
I'm a computer scientist and cultural theorist at the Center for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany. This is my home page.
Work: I work in the areas of media research and artificial intelligence, complementing technical work with cultural analysis of technology.
people
media
technology
computer
art
Work: I work in the areas of media research and artificial intelligence, complementing technical work with cultural analysis of technology.
july 2011 by tsuomela
Would you risk your firm's reputation by telling News Corp.'s side of the story? - storify.com
july 2011 by tsuomela
"The digitally savvy PR firm, Edelman, has agreed to represent News Corp., which is in crisis over big revelations from the UK that it hacked phones, paid off the cops, lied to regulators, lied to itself, and showed no interest in coming clean on the story for five years. This seemed to me a risky decision on Edelman's part. But maybe I don't understand the PR biz. Watch as I try to figure it out."
public-relations
media
crisis
journalism
reputation
july 2011 by tsuomela
Reform or Schadenfreude? Reading the Fall of the House of Murdoch | Easily Distracted
july 2011 by tsuomela
"Of all the distressing things about this global moment, the most distressing of all is the seeming resignation of national, local and world publics about the parade of woes confronting them. I’m not offering this as the stereotypical complaint of a self-anointed activist against the apathy of others. I feel the same sense of resignation and passivity. "
media
journalism
resignation
activism
reform
july 2011 by tsuomela
Chris Hedges: The Myth of The New York Times, in Documentary Form - Film Review - Truthdig
july 2011 by tsuomela
"When you allow an institution to provide you with your identity and sense of self-worth you become an obsequious pawn, no matter how much talent you possess. You live in perpetual fear of what those in authority think of you and might do to you. This mechanism of internalized control—for you always need them more than they need you—is effective. "
media
journalism
norms
behavior
organization
institutions
self-definition
self
july 2011 by tsuomela
Atheists fed up? Believe it! - Guest Voices - The Washington Post
july 2011 by tsuomela
Where the response to the great popularity of my article has been inadequate is among the media, which continue to pay the chronic anti-atheism problem the minimal attention they always have. The absence of progressive media on the issue is especially remarkable because atheist bashing is part and parcel of the theoconservative PR campaign to discredit all who dare not agree with them. Much as theists need to be kinder to nonsupernaturalists, societal leaders need to regularly address and denounce anti-atheism.
atheism
media
america
july 2011 by tsuomela
Daily Dot | Home
june 2011 by tsuomela
"The Daily Dot is the hometown newspaper of the World Wide Web. We cover what happens in online communities the way a traditional newspaper covered the town you grew up in."
online
content
aggregator
journalism
recommendations
web
internet
culture
media
june 2011 by tsuomela
Byliner
june 2011 by tsuomela
"Publishers of Krakauer - Three Cups of Deceit. Discover and discuss great reads by great writers."
journalism
media
news
online
recommendations
discovery
june 2011 by tsuomela
The Atavist
june 2011 by tsuomela
"Welcome to The Atavist. We publish original nonfiction and narrative journalism for digital devices like the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, and Nook. Our stories are longer than typical magazine articles but shorter than books, written by experienced reporters and authors and designed digitally from the start. In The Atavist iPad/iPhone app, each story is laced with video, audiobooks, additional layers of information, and a host of other features."
journalism
media
ipad
reading
articles
news
online
nonfiction
june 2011 by tsuomela
MediaShift . The Necessity of Data Journalism in the New Digital Community | PBS
june 2011 by tsuomela
In the information age, journalism needs to go further. Information bombards us. What is scarce is insight, understanding and knowledge.
The news industry is built on the assumption that if you give a reporter a notebook and a few days to ramp up, he can write authoritatively on any subject. That's not enough anymore. In today's information-rich world, reporters need to bring more to the table. To provide readers with truly insightful experiences, they need to have the kind of expertise that will allow them to see the story behind the story, to see what's really going on.
journalism
media
data
statistics
media-studies
big-data
The news industry is built on the assumption that if you give a reporter a notebook and a few days to ramp up, he can write authoritatively on any subject. That's not enough anymore. In today's information-rich world, reporters need to bring more to the table. To provide readers with truly insightful experiences, they need to have the kind of expertise that will allow them to see the story behind the story, to see what's really going on.
june 2011 by tsuomela
Jacobi Daniel
june 2011 by tsuomela
"Daniel Jacobi est professeur des universités (CE). Il est chercheur dans le laboratoire Culture
people
academic
french
communication
media
sts
science
june 2011 by tsuomela
PUG : La Communication scientifique - Discours, figures, modèles - De Daniel Jacobi (EAN13 : 9782706108223)
june 2011 by tsuomela
"Qu'est-ce que la communication scientifique et comment fonctionne-t-elle ? Ce volume propose de revenir sur la question de l'efficacité de la communication, non pas pour trancher ce débat, mais pour mieux le comprendre et en saisir la complexité et les enjeux. À cet effet, ont été réunies des recherches, toutes conduites sur des docume"
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publisher
sts
science
communication
media
french
june 2011 by tsuomela
dunwoody | School of Journalism
may 2011 by tsuomela
"Sharon Dunwoody is Evjue-Bascom Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Education in the Graduate School. Among other affiliations, she is a member of the Governance Faculty of the university’s Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and is a faculty affiliate of the Science and Technology Studies program.
As a scholar, she focuses on the construction of media science messages and on how those messages are employed by individuals for various cognitive and behavioral purposes. Illustrative of this large domain are her current research streams:
How do individuals use information to inform their judgments about environmental risks?
What role do perceptions of both journalists and scientists play in the construction of news about science?"
people
academia
journalism
mass
communication
media
science
media-studies
As a scholar, she focuses on the construction of media science messages and on how those messages are employed by individuals for various cognitive and behavioral purposes. Illustrative of this large domain are her current research streams:
How do individuals use information to inform their judgments about environmental risks?
What role do perceptions of both journalists and scientists play in the construction of news about science?"
may 2011 by tsuomela
What I Think I Know About Journalism » Pressthink
april 2011 by tsuomela
"Next month I will have taught journalism at New York University for 25 years, an occasion that has led me to reflect on what I have tried to profess in that time.
Or, to put it another way, what I think I know about journalism.
It comes down to these four ideas.
1. The more people who participate in the press the stronger it will be.
2. The profession of journalism went awry when it began to adopt the View from Nowhere.
3. The news system will improve when it is made more useful to people.
4. Making facts public does not a public make
journalism
media
media-studies
communication
history
Or, to put it another way, what I think I know about journalism.
It comes down to these four ideas.
1. The more people who participate in the press the stronger it will be.
2. The profession of journalism went awry when it began to adopt the View from Nowhere.
3. The news system will improve when it is made more useful to people.
4. Making facts public does not a public make
april 2011 by tsuomela
Inside the GOP's Fact-Free Nation | Mother Jones
april 2011 by tsuomela
"Sure, there will always be liars in positions of influence—that's stipulated, as the lawyers say. And the media, God knows, have never been ideal watchdogs—the battleships that crossed the seas to avenge the sinking of the Maine attest to that. What's new is the way the liars and their enablers now work hand in glove. That I call a mendocracy, and it is the regime that governs us now."
politics
media
history
media-reform
lying
objectivity
balance
ideology
1970s
conservatism
republicans
deception
propaganda
april 2011 by tsuomela
Josef Oehmen and Fukushima – Would I have believed myself? « BraveNewClimate
april 2011 by tsuomela
"Would I have believed myself if I came across that blog and had no prior knowledge of nuclear physics and engineering? Or asked another way: How do you judge the quality of TV, radio, print and internet news reporting on topics that you are only superficially familiar with?
"
media
internet
information
belief
trust
online
information-use
nuclear
crisis
country(Japan)
"
april 2011 by tsuomela
Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, The Earthquake Kit | TomDispatch
april 2011 by tsuomela
"Who, then, does it serve to imagine that we are wolves and sheep, fools and savages? Lee Clarke, a disaster sociologist and professor at Rutgers, wrote after Hurricane Katrina, “Disaster myths are not politically neutral, but rather work systematically to the advantage of elites. Elites cling to the panic myth because to acknowledge the truth of the situation would lead to very different policy prescriptions than the ones currently in vogue.” That is to say, if we are wolves and sheep, and so not to be trusted, then they are the shepherds and the wolf-killers."
disaster
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metaphor
propaganda
militarism
government
framing
crisis
earthquake
country(Japan)
april 2011 by tsuomela
Metaphors Matter: Disaster Myths, Media Frames, and Their Consequences in Hurricane Katrina
april 2011 by tsuomela
"It has long been understood by disaster researchers that both the general public and organizational actors tend to believe in various disaster myths. Notions that disasters are accompanied by looting, social disorganization, and deviant behavior are examples of such myths. Research shows that the mass media play a significant role in promulgating erroneous beliefs about disaster behavior. Following Hurricane Katrina, the response of disaster victims was framed by the media in ways that greatly exaggerated the incidence and severity of looting and lawlessness. Media reports initially employed a “civil unrest” frame and later characterized victim behavior as equivalent to urban warfare. The media emphasis on lawlessness and the need for strict social control both reflects and reinforces political discourse calling for a greater role for the military in disaster management. Such policy positions are indicators of the strength of militarism as an ideology in the United States. "
disaster
media
metaphor
propaganda
militarism
government
framing
crisis
law
april 2011 by tsuomela
Risk Reporting 101 : CJR
march 2011 by tsuomela
Key guides to reporting both the hazard and the exposure to risks.
risk
communication
journalism
media
media-reform
psychology
march 2011 by tsuomela
Tears for a Journalist: Change in the Middle East Comes at High Cost - The Washington Note
march 2011 by tsuomela
"If I ever hear a disparaging remark against the quality of Al Jazeera journalism or the "tilts" in their coverage, I will say "shame" on that person or that Fox News commentator. Shame because Al Jazeera has been fighting hard to keep its cameras in the field and to keep its people from being hunted down by ruthless leaders that see the free press as an enemy to their power."
journalism
middle-east
aljazeera
media
freedom
foreign-affairs
march 2011 by tsuomela
The “Twitter Can’t Topple Dictators” Article » Pressthink
march 2011 by tsuomela
"So these are the six signs that identify the genre, Twitter Can’t Topple Dictators. 1.) Nameless fools are staking maximalist claims. 2.) No links we can use to check the context of those claims. 3.) The masses of deluded people make an appearance so they can be ridiculed. 4.) Bizarre ideas get refuted with a straight face. 5.) Spurious historicity. 6.) The really hard questions are skirted."
technology-effects
twitter
facebook
revolution
political-science
politics
rhetoric
journalism
genre
media
march 2011 by tsuomela
Surveillance and the Social Layer < PopMatters
march 2011 by tsuomela
Notice how this exchange is structured. What is regarded as in inherently intolerable is that any sort of social behavior could escape digital capture, could slip through the net of commercial surveillance. Innovation has become a matter of perfecting that surveillance, allowing all our behavior to be mediated and translated into marketing data to fuel the engines of consumerism—perfect the management of demand.
The contemporary tech startup’s critical (“cool”) task is to somehow entice you to share your private information in a standardized digital form in as close to real time as possible by making it “fun” and “social” and more or less compulsive, if not compulsory. It should find ways to “drive” users to report on themselves without the burden becoming intolerable.
social
media
technology
surveillance
privacy
secrecy
business
business-model
ethics
The contemporary tech startup’s critical (“cool”) task is to somehow entice you to share your private information in a standardized digital form in as close to real time as possible by making it “fun” and “social” and more or less compulsive, if not compulsory. It should find ways to “drive” users to report on themselves without the burden becoming intolerable.
march 2011 by tsuomela
Covering the Great Recession | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
march 2011 by tsuomela
The gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression has been covered in the media largely from the top down, told primarily from the perspective of the Obama Administration and big business, and reflected the voices and ideas of people in institutions more than those of everyday Americans, according to a new study by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
economics
crisis
recession
media
journalism
content
march 2011 by tsuomela
Reporting and the transformations of the journalistic field: US news media, 1890-2000
february 2011 by tsuomela
"How have journalistic ideals of public service arisen? To what extent do journalists live up to these ideals? Can we make any claims as to the social conditions that this performance depends on? Using Bourdieu’s theory of fields of cultural production, this article addresses these questions with evidence from the history of journalism in the United States. What is most distinctive about modern journalism is a specific practice: active news-gathering or reporting. "
journalism
history
media-studies
media
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