Root Privileges

Tag: media theory

  • And now, a tweet from our sponsor

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    This is a guest post contributed by Anuj Srivas, tech. journalist and blogger, until recently the author of Hypertext, The Hindu. “Once every hundred years, media changes,” social media king Mark Zuckerberg declared at a Facebook advertising event seven years ago. “The last hundred years have been defined by the mass media. The way to…

  • Plotting a technological history of journalism

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    Electric telegraph July 27, 1866 – SS Great Eastern completes laying of Transatlantic telegraphic cables By 1852, miles of American telegraphic wires had grown from 40 in 1846 to 23,000 In 1849-1869, telegraphic mileage had increased by 108,000 miles Cost of information transmission fell with its increasing ubiquity as well as instantization of global communication.…

  • de Tocqueville & the news

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    That the switch from newspapers to digital handheld devices – for the purpose of sourcing all my news – is limited only by my comfort-level with technology is telling of some shortcoming of the print industry. The changing journalistic scene is a reflection of the way people engage publicly and of how public discourse has…