Media technologies offer the promise of both eternity and oblivion, but we have a hard time telling the difference between the two.
media studies
What happens to your online selfhood when you die?
The sensibility of Gen Z is uncritical and anti-intellectual, assuming that everyone suffers from crippling anxiety and trauma, a sensitivity which any criticism might imperil.
Maybe information itself is more pernicious than the dis- or mis- varieties. The glut of facts can feel—in their sheer impenetrable volume—anxious-making, anomic, and numbing
Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos
Nixon long portrayed himself as a victim of the press. However, from the 1952 Checkers speech to his post-presidency PR offensives, Nixon proved himself an able manipulator of the media.
A conversation about Appalachia, environmentalism, and sound art.
An alternate reality is hiding in your tiny streaming box.