Undermining the Idea GateKeepers

Love this interview with Levar Burton on Building 43 – Communities without Gatekeepers Broadcast  media & commercial communication are one-way conversations bundled with sales messages, actors, branding, and entertainers. Often it is marketing made to look like authentic human interaction. he goal of most mass media communication is to generate revenue. When you unpack Broadcast [...]

The Arc of Celebrity in the Digital Age

The recent deaths of Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, and Billy Mays created the usual hyper-slop of television coverage. It was coupled with the new reverberating social media echo chamber that reached a deafening cacophony of inanity. Some are calling it the Jackson effect. Twitter tracked 100K tweets per hour at its peak. Google mistook the onslought of Jackson searches and web [...]