Social Network: Media about media
I've often written here about how media has become increasingly plastic-we shape and reshape our social networks via social media, and vise versa. Even a teachers' pedagogical standpoint influences her social media choice...and the social mediums of her PLN influence her pedagogy! I do not believe this is due to our increased dependency on social media-I believe the plasticity of social media is due to the fact that it was born from a cyclical and self-motivated American capitalist media. Our society is smothered by a few voices repeating and rehashing status quo for the sake of feeding the media machine. The result? No fresh, new perspectives or ideas, and certainly no new voices. Our media is built upon money-making, and thus entertainment; even objective or factual news stories are scrapped if they are not entertaining. This has led to a degradation of traditional fact: even the most horrifying or logical of events is reduced to an ordinary and entertaining standpoint ...