Media Studies
Keely Adler and
Media Studies
A lot of things are happening here, including the mess that’s been the 2020s, but also the combination of
a) news publisher abundance
b) media negativity bias
c) social media amplifying high-arousal negativity (eg, outrage)
turns the news into a virtual realm... See more
The ‘tetrad’ or ‘laws of media:’
enhances: awareness of inclusive, structural process
obsolesces: dominance of logical method
reverses into: technology (hardware) becomes software
retrieves: metaphor, logos
‘Laws of Media: The New Science’ (Marshall and Eric McLuhan, 1988)
https://www.a16z.news/p/laws-of-new-media?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
We enjoy media by ourselves, but we also *use* media to communicate. Am I being spoken to by the piece of media, OR is the media speaking for me? In this era, the latter is increasingly more relevant because of the ability to share the extra context around the media (the fandom). It’s not that the piece of media has to have a particularly salient... See more