by jpitney | Sep 15, 2022 | Mass Media, Uncategorized
by jpitney | May 28, 2022 | Mass Media
Nathan Gardels at Noema: In a recent Noema interview, Byung-Chul Han further noted how the structure of peer-to-peer social media is deleterious to democracy. “Information is spread without forming a public sphere,” he says. “It is produced in private spaces and...
by jpitney | Jan 19, 2022 | Mass Media, Polarization
Steven W. Webster, Elizabeth C. Connors, and Betsy Sinclair have written a study titled “The Social Consequences of Political Anger.” The abstract: A functioning democracy relies on social interactions between people who disagree—including listening to...
by jpitney | Dec 16, 2021 | China, Freedom of Press, Journalism, Journalists, Mass Media
From Reporters Without Borders: According to Reporter Without Borders’ (RSF) annual round-up published today, a record number of journalists – 488, including 60 women – are currently detained worldwide, while another 65 are being held hostage. Meanwhile, the number of...
by jpitney | Jun 13, 2021 | Business, Mass Media, Newspapers
\ Jack Shafer at Politico: In 2009, just as the apocalypse befell the newspaper industry but while local news was still in relative abundance, many readers gave it an apathetic shrug. A Pew Research Center survey from that year found that an astonishing 42 percent...
by jpitney | May 23, 2021 | Mass Media, Newspapers
Mason Walker and Katerina Eva Matsa at Pew: Staff layoffs continued to pummel the beleaguered U.S. newspaper industry in 2020. A third of papers with an average Sunday circulation of 50,000 or more experienced layoffs last year, a period complicated by the impact of...
