Tag: Media effects

• 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.

  Ajinkya Pawar

  October 27, 2021

  Media effects

  education, hate, media, Media effects, noise, sanity, signal

• 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 […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  July 18, 2017

  Behaviors, Media effects, Uncategorized

  digital lives, digital native, Media effects

• 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 […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  April 22, 2013

  Behaviors

  behavior, digital reality, india, Media effects, narcissism

• Imagination and all its sisters

    What makes one cling to fantasies so dearly? I can understand the impulse to run away from your life. But what color is your courage that pushes you beyond the limits of truth? To suspend reality and recede in thoughts. To forget and to belong. I just saw a docudrama ‘catfish‘. The movie chronicles […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  February 28, 2011

  Decoding movies and stories, Uncategorized

  behavior, digital lives, Media effects, movie appreciation