goranbolin.bsky.social
Media & Communications professor who teaches and writes on digital culture, information management, AI and data value at Södertörn University
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I know - not so much a tip for you, of course, but to "all" 😀
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As said in an earlier post, I value the approach by Mario Carlón, who has made important work to see how political messages circulate between mass and niche media. See, for example, his contribution to this (he publishes mainly in Spanish, but here in English):
www.academia.edu/48854493/NET...
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In a way this can well be true. On the other hand, he does get all the attention of the mass media that amplify whatever corny things he seemingly randomly pushes out in the public on social media. .
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Tom is sadly not on Bluesky, otherwise I am sure he would dive into the discussion with enthusiasm!
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I also like his parallel paper on the privacy parenthesis – these ideas are well worth exploring further:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/legacy/mit8/papers/TomPettitt%20Paper.pdf
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Me too. This is an important discussion, and as you rightly point out, Tom Pettitt's (and his colleagues') ideas about the closure of the Gutenberg parenthesis are indeed a valuable approach to the broader changes of modernity.
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I would recommend all reading your countryman, Argentinian researcher Mario Carlón (I am sure you know him), who has very interesting things to say about "circulation", a concept that is very useful and developed theoretically in the Latin American research community.
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Thanks @cscolari.bsky.social – I totally agree! Politics is today widely transgressing traditional genre boundaries (e.g. news, entertainment, PR, etc.). As the media are saturating all spheres of social lives, and as texts travel in fluid ways, these boundaries are no longer valid.
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The mass audience that was proclaimed dead, did indeed reappear 😀 But in slightly different form, of course:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Thanks – I have the Gutenberg Paranthesis (great book and great historical perspective). But do not have access to Magazine, so would be happy for a pdf. Would also be interested in discussing the death of mass media. Are you perhaps attending ICA in Denver in June?
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It might be, but I know too little about Democrat-aligned news outlets to tell.
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I haven't written anything about this specifically (ie Trump's strategy of taking command over news flows), but I wrote about how journalism came to dominate politics/(politicians in Sweden some time ago (if no access, DM and I can send pdf):
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Och, som sagt, det tar inte ens lång tid att åka tåg på den sträckan.
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Perhaps the news media need to change their ways of operating? Develop new methods or approaches? 3/3
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Hear me right: I am not saying that this is a good thing, but we are clearly facing a power-balance that is tipping in the favour of politicians such as Trump (or the extreme right Sweden Democrats in my country) at the cost of journalism. 2/3