Musings
In a November American Journalism Review article, Philip Meyer states,
“After 1990, of course, the effects of the Internet kicked in. When writing “The Vanishing Newspaper,” I underestimated the velocity of the Internet effect. It is now clear that it is as disruptive to today’s newspapers as Gutenberg’s invention of movable type was to the town criers, the journalists of the 15th century. ”
(Philip Meyer is professor emeritus in Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill )
The article, and the book, suggest “A smaller, less frequently published version packed with analysis and investigative reporting and aimed at well-educated news junkies that may well be a smart survival strategy for the beleaguered old print product. “
This target audience seems to me to be the very definition of today’s blogger.
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From the New York Times:
The Guggenheim’s exhibition “theanyspacewhatever” aims to resensitize people to their everyday surroundings and, moreover, to one another.
The Guggenheim’s exhibition “theanyspacewhatever”
Can there be any doubt that technology is desensitizing humanity? As we become more and more accustomed to our “remote media interface” with war, natural catastrophe, and disasters of all kinds; perhaps we are better informed of these events, perhaps not. What may be lost in translation is the emotional response that makes us human… compassion.
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