Replaying history backwardThe introduction to “Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror. Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect” (available on Amazon).Feb 14Feb 14
The news media: watchdogs prefer the paywalled garden“What happens when journalism is everywhere?”, Mathew Ingram asked in 2011. Nine years and one Trump term later, the answer is here. A…Nov 24, 2020Nov 24, 2020
Journalism in search of a cute little monkeyHaving lost their traditional business to the internet, the news media are forced to sell ‘something else’. But selling something else, not…Nov 20, 2020Nov 20, 2020
Postjournalism: from the world-as-it-is to the world-as-it-should-beBy the end of the 20thcentury, the business model of the media took its last and most optimal form: the media sold news downwards whilst…Nov 11, 2020Nov 11, 2020
Polarization studies are media studiesFake news is not the principal problem in the new media environment. The impact of fake news is already mitigated by the users’ growing…Nov 9, 2020Nov 9, 2020
The New York Times: from “We are not American Idol” to “We are not resistance” (which is gone, too).The news validation within a certain value system is the only remaining function of news business that might have relative use-value for…Nov 2, 2020Nov 2, 2020
Sourcing: news supply in the media.Herman and Chomsky thought that government and corporate bureaucracies subsidized the media by supplying news, as it was rather expensive…Oct 26, 20201Oct 26, 20201
Postjournalism: Discourse concentrationThe topics and discourses that do not support polarization will not circulate in the media for long or will be completely ignored. A…Oct 25, 2020Oct 25, 2020
The Trump bump in the news media: commodifighting TrumpThe commercial motives behind the media coverage of Trump remain unrevealed to the public. Business stimuli for the media to cover Trump’s…Oct 20, 2020Oct 20, 2020
Media business: why subscription mutates into membershipIncreasingly, the product of journalism will be paid for not by those who consume it but by those who want it to be delivered to others. A…Oct 16, 2020Oct 16, 2020