the information space
We’re now confronting the greatest structural challenge to democracy we’ve ever seen: a truly open society. Without gatekeepers, there are no constraints on discourse. Digital technology has changed everything. Consequently, reality is up for grabs in a way it never has been before.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
Instead of a productive progression through experiences, we have an increasingly indistinguishable morass.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
*My* chief concern is that many readers no longer seem to care who’s presenting “the news” at all — a fact that hustlers of all stripes both exacerbate and capitalize on.
Caitlin • The rise of the online news hustlers
What is a news hustler? Generally speaking, I think of this as an umbrella term for the various independent influencers, streamers, “intelligence monitors,” researchers, commentators and alt media shops — insert air-quotes as needed — who seek to make clout or money off digital news without contributing reporting or analysis to it.
The rise of the online news hustlers
Thoughtful mediaTM deserves a home
Anu Atluru • Thoughts For Sale
The future of media is a bank
dirt-media.notion.site
Most people don’t subscribe to media because they can’t get the information anywhere else, rather, they want to support the creator(s) and have access to their POV.
The future of media is a bank
One of the advantages of embedding culture in nature, of requiring that works of reason and imagination be given physical shape, is that it imposes on artists and thinkers the rigor of form, particularly the iron constraints of a beginning and an ending, and it gives to the rest of us the aesthetic, intellectual, and psychological satisfactions of ... See more
Craig Mod • Unbindings and Edges
Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
Analyzes America's media crisis caused by digital monopolies, detailing historic government regulation supporting free speech and advertising-funded journalism, and proposes updated competition policies to restore independent, democratic news markets.
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