New Media, New Bully?
The growing trend in this country to judge something’s worth on the basis of its immediacy, efficiency, and consolidation is a notion I have tried, to a large extent, to avoid, in that sense you could say I am a little old fashioned. It seems to me that a lot of substance gets lost in this preoccupation. This, in my opinion is partly why the term “blog” is as common as fork and spoon to some while at the same time completely foreign to others. The first time I understood the term blog as an ongoing dialogue came from its reference in a television program on showtime. Like that moment, this week’s readings left me with that feeling of disorientation one has after waking up from a long nap. That feeling in many ways speaks to Gillmor’s message in her opening discussion of “We the Media.”
