Media
Everything media related, from writing to TV
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Media
“Journalists are in general a bunch of insecure overachievers, so being in one ‘room’ with your ‘peers’ giving you constant feedback and information creates a truly awful petri dish in which the most terrible forms of groupthink thrive,” says Polgreen. “It can be very hard to resist for reporters, which makes it tough for editors to reorient their ... See more
Punk Technologies are technologies in a broad sense of the term; any knowledge, technique, or tool developed or designed to augment, assist, or adapt cultural or individual norms and practices and/or make use of surrounding resources can be considered a technology. A book is a technology the same as a robot.
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.
Anastasia Berg • On the Aesthetic Turn | The Point Magazine
How social media’s fading archives are erasing our digital history
Joan Westenbergjoanwestenberg.medium.comA call to reconsider responsibility and value
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
Video Games and Engineering Virtual Worlds | Contrary
contrary.comA great intro into the history of video games from a creation perspective.
For anyone who likes to think about music instead of just playing it in the background - read this
A glitch is a rupture from existing rules
This is a great essay on the need for self-promotion in the current creator economy