A study from Ohio State University showed that conservatives didn’t understand that Stephen Colbert is joking. They rationalize it by saying that Colbert is pretending to joking but genuinely means what he saying. What planet are they living on?
A while ago, my friend was working with an idea about how information creates communities. Before media fragmentation (I know, that concept is so 2000), it would be one or two large homogenous communities because there would only be that many media outlets. Now of course you can bury yourself in own little world because there would be the media to support it.
The consequence is that everyone lives in his or her own self-defined bubble and no one can agree on a shared reality. Isn’t that ironic? The vehicle that brought us closer together is driving us farther apart as well.
Posts
0 comments:
Post a Comment