Human as Media. The Emancipation of Authorship

Thanks to its comprehensive coverage, any possible connection between people will be not only probable, but inevitable.

In the media landscape, abundance has already occurred: an abundance of information. Therefore, in a web environment it is first and foremost media organisations that suffer. In conditions of abundance, information loses its value and the old media establishment, which obtained its authority by supplying information, loses power and ground.

4. An individual does not know what everyone else knows (lowest hierarchical level). 3) An individual knows what others know. 2) An individual knows what others know, but knows before many of them know. 1) An individual knows and communicates what many others do not know yet, but would like to know.

Whoever communicates more frequently and earlier, and conveys the most important information, achieves a higher status. This is all that is needed for gravitas

The tools that we believe make our lives easier simultaneously enslave us.

The mass media compress the big picture of the world into an agenda consisting of a compacted horizon using a simple template: Politics/Economics/Culture/Society/Sports. The mass media editor fills out each section, even if the events are not top-rated. Filling out each section of the template is compulsory – and it is one of the remaining unique a

An Internet presence is no longer an additional business opportunity – it’s a matter of existence. If you’re not on the Internet, you’re not in business. We’ll soon say the same about human beings. No links – no human.

Yes, these are real risks. Thus far, Eli Pariser, just like any of us, is capable of noticing that one of his friends with different points of view never appears in his Facebook feed, because the relevance algorithm maintains that that person’s posts are not of interest to us and doesn’t show them. But it’s already fairly difficult for us to notice

The informed have higher status than the uninformed. The informative is above the informed. I share, therefore I am significant. If you don’t yet know something that has meaning for everyone, you’re a loser.

We are still in the stone age of the Internet. Human doesn’t have experience of digital existence and therefore sees novelty as something worrying, often even a threat. On a state level there is a desire to regulate the digital environment for the sake of the comfort and stability of the people, or indeed, of the state itself. What is more, the dig