New information mediums (news) as an untapped clustering in high dimensional space of • Content rigor • Author credentials • Originality v curation • Mainstream v obscurity • Demanded reader attention • Presentation format • Signaled seriousness • Views of audience etc
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Outrage at new mediums of information as moral outrage that a market exists for that clustering of preferences Consider: BuzzFeed, tweets-as-news, rigorous blogs, Voxsplaining, Wikipedia, TED v TEDx, educational YouTube, “fuck yeah science!”, millennial outrage at primetime news
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"New forms always seem immoral or chaotic since they are unconsciously judged by reference to consecrated forms." from https://www.slideshare.net/madsholmen/they-became-what-they-beheld …pic.twitter.com/rj2MQEsIuW
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Super interesting. Hard to even get what felt objectionable about it, but probably because internet culture remixes stuff relentlessly
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