The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Review – How Big Tech Altered the Narrative
Stuart Jeffriestheguardian.com
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han Review – How Big Tech Altered the Narrative
IN A COMMAND-AND-CONTROL WORLD, we know who’s telling the story; it’s the author. But digital media have created an authorship crisis. Once the audience is free to step out into the fiction and start directing events, the entire edifice of twentieth-century mass media begins to crumble.
Frank Rose • The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories
The informatization of reality leads to its atomization — separated spheres of what is thought to be true.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Discursive rationality is today under threat from affective communication. We allow ourselves to be easily affected by fast sequences of information. It is quicker to appeal to affect than to rationality. In affective communication, it is not the better argument but the most exciting information that prevails. Fake news is more interesting than fac
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... another reason for the crisis of community, which is a crisis of democracy, is digitalization. Digital communication redirects the flows of communication. Information is spread without forming a public sphere. It is produced in private spaces and distributed to private spaces. The web does not create a public. This has highly deleter... See more