Post by account_disabled on Mar 10, 2024 4:48:23 GMT -5
Although online we can access newspapers, magazines, television channels, radios, high quality digital web publications, if we at least know English, I understood that the in-depth study of a good book could not be replaced by an interview with the author and that the vision of the world proposed by a novel was unmatched by any other content on the social web. Then Seth Godin enlightened me, as sometimes happens. Storytelling Festival 2024 The sixth edition of the most important storytelling event in Italy is coming. 150 TICKETS ALREADY SOLD. EARLY OFFER […] €159€59 The media and how you feel Three years ago Seth Godin published a post with a merciless examination of the media industry , giving a name to feelings and sensations that I had felt many times: The media amplifies anxiety, and then offer programming that offers relief from that anxiety.
The media likes events and circuses and bowl games, because they Canada Phone Number have a beginning and an ending, and because they can be programmed and promoted. They invite us into the situation room, alarm us with breaking news and then effortlessly move onto the next crisis. They train us to expect quick and neat resolutions to problems, because those are easier to sell. They push us to think short-term, to care about now and not later. Take the front pages of newspapers and TV news (and what is shared on Facebook and Instagram streams) about the Coronavirus and you immediately understand the principle of anxiety and relief . First I will alert you for days about a new emergency and then I will reassure you that the problem is not that serious, unless you live in a very specific.
Chinese province. Anything that has a beginning and an end can be packaged, promoted and sold. Not to mention breaking news, which causes an online news site to change the opening news every 5 minutes, even if nothing has happened in 5 minutes: clicks must be stimulated, because it is with clicks that the newspaper ( survives. All of this leads us to think about today and not tomorrow. We are confined, without realizing it, in an eternal present. What Douglas Rushkoff calls Present Continuous . The infinite scrolling of the homepages of web platforms represents this phenomenon well. Storytelling Festival 2024 The sixth edition of the most important storytelling event in Italy is coming. 150 TICKETS ALREADY SOLD. EARLY OFFER […] €159€59 So what to do to get out of it? Reduce media consumption Seth Godin suggests some solutions that I make my own: Intellectual pursuits don’t align with the options that media would rather have us care about. A walk in the woods with a friend or your kids does the media-industrial complex no good at all.
The media likes events and circuses and bowl games, because they Canada Phone Number have a beginning and an ending, and because they can be programmed and promoted. They invite us into the situation room, alarm us with breaking news and then effortlessly move onto the next crisis. They train us to expect quick and neat resolutions to problems, because those are easier to sell. They push us to think short-term, to care about now and not later. Take the front pages of newspapers and TV news (and what is shared on Facebook and Instagram streams) about the Coronavirus and you immediately understand the principle of anxiety and relief . First I will alert you for days about a new emergency and then I will reassure you that the problem is not that serious, unless you live in a very specific.
Chinese province. Anything that has a beginning and an end can be packaged, promoted and sold. Not to mention breaking news, which causes an online news site to change the opening news every 5 minutes, even if nothing has happened in 5 minutes: clicks must be stimulated, because it is with clicks that the newspaper ( survives. All of this leads us to think about today and not tomorrow. We are confined, without realizing it, in an eternal present. What Douglas Rushkoff calls Present Continuous . The infinite scrolling of the homepages of web platforms represents this phenomenon well. Storytelling Festival 2024 The sixth edition of the most important storytelling event in Italy is coming. 150 TICKETS ALREADY SOLD. EARLY OFFER […] €159€59 So what to do to get out of it? Reduce media consumption Seth Godin suggests some solutions that I make my own: Intellectual pursuits don’t align with the options that media would rather have us care about. A walk in the woods with a friend or your kids does the media-industrial complex no good at all.