Media
Everything media related, from writing to TV
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Media
Categories and Sample Questions for Media Decoding
An exploration of media decoding, developing habits of inquiry, and critical thinking, with categories and sample questions to analyze the authenticity and impact of various media messages.
projectlooksharp.orgquestions to help me think critically
I had countless conversations with reporters in the pre-Elon Musk Twitter era who could not fathom doing their jobs without the site, who insisted that Twitter was where sources and scoops and true insight lay. It was utterly wrong and also completely understandable in a way that made arguing about it futile: Twitter could feel like a direct connec... See more
Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
A great breakdown of enshittification and the cures to this horrible disease
How social media’s fading archives are erasing our digital history
Joan Westenbergjoanwestenberg.medium.comA call to reconsider responsibility and value
Midnight | Coding a More Creative and Playful Web
midnight.agency
“Code isn’t destined to be serious”
Punk Technologies are technologies in a broad sense of the term; any knowledge, technique, or tool developed or designed to augment, assist, or adapt cultural or individual norms and practices and/or make use of surrounding resources can be considered a technology. A book is a technology the same as a robot.
CDs and nostalgia in fandom
Can we imagine what will come after the subscription economy? Will it just be a case of bundeling everything up again?
For all its good intentions, art that tries to minister to its audience by showcasing moral aspirants and paragons or the abject victims of political oppression produces smug, tiresome works that are failures both as art and as agitprop. Artists and critics—their laurel bearers—should take heed.