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Media Studies
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The result is a narrowing of cultural imagination, where audiences are trained to expect entertainment that entertains but does not provoke, distracts but does not enlighten.
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― Bansang Pinipilas
― Bansang Pinipilas
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Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often exaggerate the power of big media in order to frighten readers into taking action. I don't disagree with their concern about media concentration, but the way they frame the debate is self-defeating insofar as it disempowers consumers even as it seeks to mobilize them. Far too much media reform rheto
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― Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
― Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
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