#FWakeChatGPT
#FWakeTwitterLength #TwitterProblemA <<<<<<<
#FWake600Words #FWake45Words

>>>> #WeTeachMediaEcologyTogether "Together we teach Media Ecology"

#RFP6

https://old.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1jz850f/kids_these_days_cant_even_write_the_equivalent_of/

#DiaryOfRoundSparrow :: #TwitterProblemA

"I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul." - #FWakeY1907 #FWakeApril27

"I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the government or Russian tyranny while the #MonoMyth #tyranny occupies the palace of Hollywood audiences and Clergy venues alike." - March 8, 2025

#CarlSaganWasRight1995 #ArtIntelOpera /\

Carl Sagan described this very media consumer problem in year 1995 in his book. "10 second sound-bite" media. #TwitterProblemA Twitter-Length thinking, Twitter-length messaging systems. #ThisMeansMastodon

I wish to emphasize: #RoundSparrowAsserts

Neil Postman 1985 gives a deeper perspective of 2024 situation because it does not name Twitter, Facebook, BlueSky, TikTok, YouTube, Apple iPhone, Android Smartphone, Samsung by name. It frames the problem as "mob mentality" of television. And it is important to see technology progression and NOT just blame "Fox News" alone, but the medium addiction itself. #TwitterProblemA

Same with Peter Pomerantsev in 2014, Adam Curtis in 2014 regarding Russia.

#TwitterProblemA

"Because all the troubles that such a life involve are just reduced to banality, just the common rubble of little one line joke, you follow me? It’s made banal by it. It’s banalised that way." - Texan Rick Roderick, 1993, "Self Under Siege", Duke University

#TwitterProblemA

#FWakeY1971 #FWakeYear1971

Quote is from 1971

‘Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World’ in Martin Greenberger (ed.) Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest (1971)

#CarlSagan said the same thing in 1995 that Neil Postman emphasized in his 1985 book.

"And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995

#TwitterProblemA /\

#TwitterProblemA

November 14, 2024

The Twitter problem persists in Bluesky and Mastodon. Fragmented topic-changing scrolling of a slew of cat photos, advertisements, mixed in with serious topics. Mental context changes. Entertainment seeking to mask reality. Amusement park information service, rumor mills, amusement mills.

The entire book by Neil Postman in 1985 "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" defines this problem of "entertaining news".

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