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It's quite eye opening the way that this article paints Facebook as a clueless giant, unknowingly enabling revolutions, swinging elections and upending societi
by ivix 9y ago
It's quite eye opening the way that this article paints Facebook as a clueless giant, unknowingly enabling revolutions, swinging elections and upending societies.
I don't think there's any precedent for this.
- dredmorbius 9y agoI'd very strongly suggest you read media theory. The role of media -- the press, cheap paper, high-speed printing, widespread literacy, pamphlets, telegraph, radio, cinema, audio tape, public address systems, mass media, advertising, television, cable, talk radio, BBS systems, Usenet, the Internet, the WWW (versions 1.0, 2.0, and mobile), etc., in political and social matters is absolutely profound. And often quite unexpected at least by the initial creators. Elizabeth Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change is one introduction to this, though there are many others. I'm going through Robert W. McChesney's work presently.
- clydethefrog 9y agoIt's a depressing field if you go to deep I feel, especially if you read the most critical and pessimistic critical theorists in the field. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Benjamin and The Society of the Spectacle by Debord forever changed my vision on society. "My thoughts have been replaced by moving images..."
- dredmorbius 9y agoThanks for the suggestions. /me glances at the reading pile^Wstack^Wmountain^Wsingularity. Um. Maybe ;-) Actually, a friend has previously strongly recommended Guy Dubord, and I keep running across references. I do have ... something by him. Dense.