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| Media: A. The media industry is made up of newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and online media. See also Television, Newspaper, Cinema, Social Media, Internet. - B. In information theory, the medium is a channel through which information is transmitted. The medium can be a radio wave, a cable, or a piece of paper. See also Information theory._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Eli Pariser on Media - Dictionary of Arguments
I 59 Media/Pariser: 1. The costs of production and distribution will be approaching zero. 2. As a result, we are flooded with choices. 3. That makes information managers all the more important. 4. Human editors are expensive, code is cheap. >Code, >Costs, >Marginal costs. I 62 News/Fake News/False/False Report/Problem: what if the news landscape is so fragmented that corrections of false messages or lies do not reach the individual anymore? >Fake news, >Misinformation, >Social media, >Social networks, >Internet, >Internet culture. I 82 Community/Media/Pariser: Talent shows gather people in front of the screen, but they do not address them as citizens. This is what the representatives of the old media did. >Newspapers, >Public sphere._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Pariser I Eli Pariser The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think London 2012 |
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