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Move Fast And Fix Things If you want to know just how quickly things have changed, just ask Julie Scelfo, who’s a media ecologist (one who studies the interactions of
A new generation of media consumers and creators have become increasingly reliant on a set of electronic platforms that are known to have an enormous influence on the health of
When you ask Esther Dyson, who began her career as fact-checker/reporter for Forbes, about the challenges facing media, she inevitably answers in a complex and nuanced way. Media, she’s quick
Sometimes, the best thing you can do as a journalist is to eavesdrop. Find a place where you can sit quietly in the corner and just listen. So that’s what
Carl Sagan And The Dumbing Down Of America Carl Sagan’s remarkable life as an astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author made him uniquely suited to ask complicated questions.
It’s easy to miss the changes going on in media because chances are, they’re happening in a world hidden from view. But just ask two of the world’s industry leaders,
Uri Hasson is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton. The Hasson Lab (https://www.hassonlab.com/) studies the brain’s responses to natural real-life events. He has a Ph.D. in neurobiology and has been running experiments on how the brain receives and reacts to real-world inputs. He’s been studying how storytelling can influence and even direct behavior, using fMRI recordings to track brain activity. Hasson is not a futurist or a theorist — he’s a scientist, and his work is deeply rooted in research. So when he uses a word like addiction, he’s not using it in the colloquial term, he means addiction as a medical condition.
No matter how you view the world, as a media maker, an ad seller, or a parent, you can’t help but feel that media, in its current incarnation, is doing
For a brief moment, I was the head of the program committee at the Albany Ad Club. For the life of me, I can’t remember why. My job was to
