tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280685660918852895.post8118603165190056090..comments2023-10-05T06:13:48.018-07:00Comments on Media Studies 102: Effects of Mass Media: W.R Hearst and Robinson's Information DiffusionAlenda Changhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12808749949370769131noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280685660918852895.post-71910813825380373042012-10-05T23:29:30.183-07:002012-10-05T23:29:30.183-07:00Anna, Sophia, and Claire, this is a great discussi...Anna, Sophia, and Claire, this is a great discussion. I agree with Claire that in many respects aspects of traditional print media have been transferred almost wholesale to digital media--that's why we read web "pages" and "bookmark" them and write in Word "documents." The list goes on and on. That said, a lot of smart people have been worrying over the differences in attention span and behavior occasioned by the "new" affordances of the Internet and related technologies. Take Nicholas Carr, for instance, the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Shallows-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393072223" rel="nofollow"><i>The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains</i></a>, or Katherine Hayles's essay on hyper vs. deep attention. There seems to be something qualitatively different about curling up with a paperback and scanning something online.Alenda Changhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12808749949370769131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280685660918852895.post-83306369506600492712012-10-01T18:43:26.216-07:002012-10-01T18:43:26.216-07:00Very interesting post - loved how you tied in the ...Very interesting post - loved how you tied in the reading to Hearst. <br /><br />With regards to the "demise" of print media that Sophia is referencing, I think that we have to change our notion of what is "print". Though books on e-readers and online news websites are clearly not print media in the traditional sense, such media are still, in essence, the kind of "print" media favored by educated elites. They have now been transferred to the internet as is fitting with the times, but they are not much different from the newspapers and magazines of yesteryear. I think we would have to differentiate between such traditional-media-gone-online, social networking sites, and other types of online media (celebrity gossip sites, food blogs, etc.) in order to get the full picture. With that being said, I believe that the knowledge gap still continues to hold true today despite the transition from print to web. Clairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00616516054046443283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4280685660918852895.post-44147931679563954232012-09-30T16:48:34.033-07:002012-09-30T16:48:34.033-07:00Great post Anna -
I actually wonder if print med...Great post Anna - <br /><br />I actually wonder if print media being the "favored media mode" of the better educated is a trend that is changing today, and how that would affect information diffusion. <br /><br />For example, Kindles / e-readers are becoming more and more popular, and even among the "higher educated" college crowd, many people seem to prefer reading their news online instead of sitting down with physical newspapers. However, if information diffusion can be increased through electronic means and / or close the knowledge gap, the concern continues to exist that more and more people (highly educated or not) are also shutting themselves off into niches, without paying attention to larger issues (e.g. someone scanning the headlines only clicks through to what is interesting to them, such as the gossip column, instead of reading about the upcoming Presidential election). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com