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fan practices blur the distinction between reading and writing.
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Daniel Bessner • The Life and Death of Hollywood, by Daniel Bessner
Andreas Hepp’s formulation of “deep mediatization” points a further way out of determinism. Under this condition, Hepp writes, “all elements of our social world are intricately related to digital media and their underlying infrastructures.”28 If society has become so thoroughly mediated, how could we expect democracy to emerge in
... See moreNathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
we have less to fear from government restraints than from television glut; that, in fact, we have no way of protecting ourselves from information disseminated by corporate America; and that, therefore, the battles for liberty must be fought on different terrains from where they once were.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Clive Thompson • The Minecraft Generation (Published 2016)
From an interview between David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace in 1996.
DFW: Oh—the reason why I think you oughta do a book about TV, is this problem is not gonna go away. I don’t know about you, but in ten or fifteen years, we’re gonna have virtual reality pornography. Now, if I don’t develop some machinery for being able to turn off pure
... See morePrecisely because the boundary between writer
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
But our new digital culture of information sharing has so rejected the broadcast style and embraced key elements of oral traditions,