Trump’s parting electoral tantrum puts the exclamation mark on the fundamental flaw of democracy that his presidency has revealed: that a poorly informed electorate can willingly choose its own demise (even as it recites platitudes to the contrary). Two institutions are most implicated in this flaw: public education and the mass media. In well functioning […]
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“I am become Death…”
Posted in Politics, tagged Bhagavad Gita, democracy, Donald Trump, media, public education, public media, public sphere, Trumpism on November 12, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
Covid-19 conspiracies and the media: or, Toward an epidemiology of media trust
Posted in MediaSpace, Politics, tagged Bruno Latour, conspiracy culture, conspiracy theories, Coronavirus, COVID-19, disinformation, epidemiology of media trust, epistemology, fake news, information regimes, infovirology, media, media ecology, media politics, media theory, media trust, mediasphere, post-truth, Q, QAnon, Steve Fuller on May 17, 2020 | 4 Comments »
The global pandemic of Covid-19 has been accompanied by a proliferation of competing narratives of what the crisis is and means, and how it should be addressed. The UN and the World Health Organization have called this an “infodemic,” that is, an epidemic (or pandemic) of information that, in its confusing diversity, has made it […]
Pandemic epistemology
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged anomalistics, Atlantic Monthly, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ed Yong, epistemology, media, mediasphere, pandemic politics, pandemics, public communication of science, public trust, science communication on April 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
One of the silver linings about the coronavirus pandemic is that it has made some people, and even institutions, more generous (at least temporarily). Among them are popular and academic journals that have removed their paywalls and offered their publications for free. (I shared one of my own articles in that category yesterday. The irony, […]
Green new dealing it…
Posted in MediaSpace, Politics, tagged Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, campaign finance reform, climate change communication, ecomedia, environmental communication, Fox Business News, Fox News, Green New Deal, Juan Williams, media, right-wing media, Robert Hockett, television, Tucker Carlson on February 9, 2019 | 20 Comments »
For someone who teaches media and environment, it’s heartening to see people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and one of her advisors, Cornell legal star Robert Hockett, break through the media din. Even Tucker Carlson had to admit that “it’s nice to have a smart person” on his show to explain things. (Students, take note.) First, Ocasio-Cortez:
A time for grieving, a time for analysis
Posted in Politics, tagged Beirut, fear, geopolitics, global civil religion, globality, hope, media, Paris, political left, terrorism on November 17, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes discussions in social media feel like the internal conversations of a person with severe multiple-personality disorder trying hard to give equal voice, or at least free rein, to their many voices. And I find I can agree with all or most of those voices; and at the same time disagree. In a facebook debate […]
“Lest you think we’re a faceless entity…”
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged Adbusters, culture jamming, Dissolve, media on March 25, 2014 | 2 Comments »
This ad is making the rounds, but in case you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. It is brilliant. As Jeff Beer puts it, the stock video footage firm Dissolve illustrates the “marketing strategy equivalent of paint-by-numbers” by putting its own goods to the words of Kendra Eash‘s brilliant McSweeney’s piece.
SCMS Media & Environment group
Posted in ..., EcoCulture, MediaSpace, tagged cinema, film, media on March 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »
The Media and Environment Scholarly Interest Group just won the prize for best attended business meeting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Or so we were informed by the SCMS interest group liaison present at the meeting. This year’s SCMS featured what to my mind was by far the largest assemblage of panels and papers […]
A little riot going on
Posted in Politics, SpiritMatter, tagged Connolly, global civil religion, globalism, globalization, liberalism, media, progressivism, Pussy Riot on August 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Little time this week, unfortunately, for me to keep up with the Pussy Riot conviction (as promised here) or anything else. But I recommend Charles Cameron’s series of posts (six so far, and counting) over at Zenpundit, including his annotated summary of their closing statements. The statements themselves are very lucid and articulate, as one […]
Wall Street occupation
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged media, Politics, protest on September 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Why are the Wall Street protests not getting the media coverage similar events in other countries, or in Tea Party country, get? (Keith Olbermann asks this, below.) Discuss. More here and here.
Metaphorics of “revolution” & “rebellion”
Posted in MediaSpace, tagged media, NPR, public radio on March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When we hear about a Twitter and Facebook “revolution” in “X Square” or in a city in Libya, do we get keyed up? When we later hear about “rebels” and “civil war” somewhere in Africa (in that same Libya), do we tune out? This week’s On the Media — one of the best hours of […]
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