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The new media regime

Posted in MediaSpace, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a back-of-the-envelope hypothesis on the “new media regime” and some open questions that follow from it. Two groups are faring best these days under the current (new) media regime.* The first is surveillance capitalists, who have developed ways to monetize and harvest new data technologies directly for the accumulation of wealth. (That covers the […]

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Earth Day thoughts for a mediascaped planet…

Posted in MediaSpace, Politics, tagged , , , , , on April 22, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been posting about the Ukrainian presidential runoff elections over at UKR-TAZ, the blog I established in the wake of the 2014 Maidan revolution. (See Four theses on Ukrainian politics and Politics as reality-FB.) The gist of my comments is relevant to the study of social media’s impacts on political and cultural change in general, […]

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The Damore-Google dust-up

Posted in Academe, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 12, 2017 | 12 Comments »

Here I go wading into a type of debate this blog does not often venture into: the debate surrounding Google employee James Damore’s firing for his ‘Ideological Echo Chamber’ manifesto. I find this to be a complicated and interesting conversation, and I’m curious to know how my thoughts align with others.

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