Off Topic: Five Critical Things You Must Do with New Media
| June 21, 2009 | Posted by O'Leary under Off Topic |
(Yesterday, at Write! Canada 2009, the annual conference sponsored by The Word Guild I gave a workshop on the way the new social media are changing the publishing world, and how writers might adapt. I made some notes and said I would put them up at Future Tense, the Canadian Christian writers’ blog on the changing media environment.) This may be of interest to some people who follow the ID controversy because, with the decline of the old media, people must be reached through the new.
One caution: I am not an expert. I am in the process of working it out myself, and hope to share what I have learned so far.
1. Understand the difference new media make.
Let’s look at how the tsunami of different choices in communication has impacted traditional media:
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Good observations
From the article: “Consumers organize their own media world and systematically shut out what they don’t want to hear.
That’s certainly a problem. Uncommon Descent, as well as Panda’s Thumb and Pharyngula, routinely moderate and sometimes ban dissenters, imposing censorship on those who do not toe the party line.
What this leaves behind is a clique of self-congratulatory folks who agree with each other, reinforcing their worldview, never knowing that there are folks outside the pale who disagree with them – some for very good reasons.
This is not new – it’s just easier now. After a while potheads who talk only to other potheads think everybody is a user; religionists who talk only to other religionists think everybody else subscribes to their narrow interpretation – this holds true for lots of groups.
PaulBurnett,
——”This is not new – it’s just easier now. After a while potheads who talk only to other potheads think everybody is a user; religionists who talk only to other religionists think everybody else subscribes to their narrow interpretation – this holds true for lots of groups.”
Including yours.
The thing is, the world is flocking to the new social media whether anyone likes it or not, because it was an inevitable consequence of the day some guy in the Advanced Projects Research Agency some time in the late ’60s decided to use the phone line to share data between two incompatible computers.
At least, that’s the story I heard.
In my view, there are foreseeable good and bad outcomes to all that – and many that are unforeseeable.
The lack of an establishment gatekeeper for what counts as news benefits minority communities, who have their own definitions of news.
But it also means that all communities can insulate themselves against even hearing hostile definitions of news.
Even here, minorities benefit more, because they are freer to develop resources in the absence of armies of establishment trolls – often salaried or tenured mediocrities whose vested interest is in packaging establishment failures as successes.