Brandon Marcus

News consumption is indistinguishable from shopping (Illing)

Liberalism must include liberality and fraternity; an ethic of mutual respect and generosity toward your fellow citizens. The essence of fraternity is

Shady marketing and propaganda aren’t new, of course, but what is new is that the entire infrastructure of public conversation has been quietly captur

The discipline of information literacy has always pushed back against this. Its foundational premise is that access to information should serve the pe

One of his more interesting sidelines was his critique of the ideas of copyright and patent. He believed attributing scientific discovery to a single

Information and attention: A century in which the key to human history is not how the economy grew, but rather how humans learned to give attention to

Murdoch suggests that the ego makes it difficult to properly attend to one another. We often fail to see others adequately because the ego gets in the