One of the more bewildering aspects of media in public life in 2017 is that it feels the Overton window has bifurcated into separate frames
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Each subreddit and Slack its own frame. We used to have more-or-less consensus, with Walter Cronkite as moderator..
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now the vision of "on the internet, everyone is a publisher" comes to bear
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Sometimes I post something trivial and people freak out, and I remember oh, I'm in THIS Star Trek forum. I thought I was in the OTHER one.
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Star Trek fandom is silly but it perfectly illustrates your point. There's now a Seth MacFarlane-is-cool Trek and a feminist Trek. No mixing
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Yes! One of my best profs at MIT, David Thorburn, calls this the "consensus narrative":https://bostonreview.net/forum/internet-bad-democracy/henry-jenkins-challenging-consensus …
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