The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
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To oversimplify, here’s where we ended up. The Internet really did bring new voices into a national discourse that, for too long, had been controlled by far too narrow a group. But it did not return our democratic culture and modes of thinking to pre-TV logocentrism. The brief renaissance of long blog arguments was short-lived (and, honestly, it wa... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Marie K. Shanahan • 1 highlight
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The information balance of power has changed, of course. A generation ago, the public could exist only as a passive audience. Information was dispensed on the industrial model: top down and one to many. That was the great age of the daily newspaper and famous anchormen on the model of Walter Cronkite. The advent of digital platforms, in a sense, cr
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