The Media Meltdown
Past Present Podcast, Episode 373
In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss the continued cutbacks and collapses of digital media companies....
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Digital Authoritarianism and Trolling in Turkey
In 2007, Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) had its second election victory, increasing its vote share to 47,8 and consolidating power. In the same year, it imposed important regulations to ‘clean’ the Internet of undesirable content. Law 5651, On Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Combating Crimes committed ...
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black on Black
The digital future of color bias and racism
Asha Hassan Nooli is a rising sophomore at Lang College, and a first-generation American coming from a Somali background. She is interested in stimulating social reform on a global scale. The essay that follows was Hassan Nooli’s contribution to the New School Dean’s Honor Symposium, an annual celebration of the ...
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Writing about Factual Media in an Age of Extremes
Our ‘Manhattan Project’ moment
Several months ago, my friend and colleague Daniel Kreiss and I were discussing something extraordinary: communication research, and communication researchers, suddenly seemed to be everywhere. Prompted by the role played by digital platforms in the election of Donald Trump and the undeniable power of media and communication companies in establishing ...
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The Ever-Expanding Field of Media Studies
Ideas for understanding the mediated world
While poetry and prose, motion pictures and maps, listicles and landscape paintings, audiobooks and animated GIFs have all been reduced to “content” on our screens, the mechanisms that deliver that content to us are now revealing their own complexity. Substrates and filters and cables, we have come to see, possess ...
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Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the “Possibility of Joy”
An interview
The following is a transcription of a broadcast aired on the radio program Clinamen, which is co-conducted by Diego Sztulwark, Diego Skliar, and Natalia Genero. It was translated from the Spanish by Ana Vivaldi and Daniel Harper in 2017.
Bifo casts his gaze across multiple planes: the personal and the political, the technical ...
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The Earth Quake, Hurricanes, Political Madness and Dilemmas of Free Speech
The Life of the Mind Online
I am bewildered.
How can so much bad news be happening at the same time? A major earthquake, one horrendous hurricane after another, the Republicans in Congress on the brink of finally making sure that millions -- old, poor and infirm -- can’t go to the doctor? Then there is President ...
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The Life of the Mind Online
The Politics of Small Things, Civility and Subversion and Public Seminar
The future of scholarly and intellectual life will be decided on the web. The values of scholarship and the application of the fruits of scholarship to the problems of our times will thrive or wither online. It was out of a desire to test this judgment that I started dabbling ...
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Will the Internet be the Death of Metaphysics?
Thinking Gianni Vattimo through Black Mirror, the ‘Nosedive’ Episode
The philosopher Gianni Vattimo formulated his hermeneutics on ‘Weak Thought’, in his work Art’s Claim to Truth (1979). Weak Thought is “nothing other than the knowledge, acceptance, and recognition that philosophy, after the deconstruction of metaphysics, cannot capture the ultimate essence of its objects but must comply with multiplicity of ...
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