Media
Everything media related, from writing to TV
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Media
For anyone who likes to think about music instead of just playing it in the background - read this
Categories and Sample Questions for Media Decoding
An exploration of media decoding, developing habits of inquiry, and critical thinking, with categories and sample questions to analyze the authenticity and impact of various media messages.
projectlooksharp.orgquestions to help me think critically
Author Spotlight: Andrew Dana Hudson - Lightspeed Magazine
lightspeedmagazine.com
Cultural fracking
2024 Edelman Trust Barometer
edelman.com
Trust in innovation is low
Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
A great breakdown of enshittification and the cures to this horrible disease
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Floppies “force their users to confront the transience of art and information”
I had countless conversations with reporters in the pre-Elon Musk Twitter era who could not fathom doing their jobs without the site, who insisted that Twitter was where sources and scoops and true insight lay. It was utterly wrong and also completely understandable in a way that made arguing about it futile: Twitter could feel like a direct... See more
For all its good intentions, art that tries to minister to its audience by showcasing moral aspirants and paragons or the abject victims of political oppression produces smug, tiresome works that are failures both as art and as agitprop. Artists and critics—their laurel bearers—should take heed.
