Tag: Media effects
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What media teaches us?
To confuse exceptions with norms.To think of outliers as mainstream.To confuse the noisy game of chance with the linear arrow of fate. As media becomes overwhelming, the sanest people are those that are able to appreciate this and consequently separate signal from noise.
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The slowness of digital life
Digital connections = Speed. Instantaneous reactions, Instantaneous gratification, Instantaneous outrage and so on. Everything is instantaneous. Or not? Recently, while my own phone was getting recharged and I had no option but to look around, I saw a person sitting there, with phone in hand. Waiting with anticipation for a like, a comment or some […]
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Stop bitching. Start acting.
Exhibit A Have you seen posts like these on FB lately? What are they about? A person witnesses some ‘wrong’ act. He/ She promptly takes a picture of the wrong act. He/she hurries to upload it to social media in an effort to shame the person in question. Earlier, a photograph of a car’s number […]