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And now, increasingly, the tribe is the message, and each tribe aligns with their own medium.
by Schiendelman 5y ago
And now, increasingly, the tribe is the message, and each tribe aligns with their own medium.
- the-dude 5y agoEven if this were true, it is nothing new : in The Netherlands after WWII every religious / political fraction had its own public broadcast group ( channels / stations are shared ), schools, sport clubs, news papers, labor unions etc. There was even a word for it : verzuiling [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation
- Schiendelman 5y agoWhat’s new is that the tribes can grow worldwide without physical interaction.
- Fricken 5y agoMarshall McLuhan had some things to say about "peer to peer electronic media" in the 1970s, and amongst was a concern that it would provoke tribalism.
- Schiendelman 5y agoYes! And Neil Postman carried on those ideas.