Media Studies
Keely Adler and
Media Studies
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
The more powerful communication technologies become, the more people will fight wars over words instead of territory. Language, when wielded at scale, is among man's most powerful weapons.
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
