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404 Voices: Thoughts on Media
these are personal perspectives, experiences, and lessons on social media… it’s not meant as an article per se but rather as a thought process… so please bear with me as i try to make sense of it. Thank you! Part One: The world is not neatly organized into categories… When I read the news (newspapers or online), I see a world that is neatly organized into columns and categories. This is how I learn to understand and expect the world. If we were to imagine our world as being presented to us by conventional news, there would not be one whole world, there would be many worlds, broken and isolated from each other, each with its own narrative and assumptions. Perhaps we have grown to rely on such processes of fragmentation so much that we find meaningful contexts overwhelming, and to our detriment, have learned to avoid these complexities and contradictions altogether. For instance, if you check mainstream media’s coverage on the #14N Eurostrike, most reports revolve around the number of protesters/strikers, violence between protesters and the police, updates on budget votes, and even some personal anecdotes of people whose lives are being affected the austerity measures. What you don’t [...]
2012-11-19 00:10:02
Source: http://404systemerror.com/404-voices-thoughts-on-media-part-i/
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