http://shalimarsays.com/?p=31 Views on the News Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:00:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://shalimarsays.com/?p=31&cpage=1#comment-5 Compatible Creatures – War & Politics & Life - Info Ugly — News-Watching Sucks Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:00:15 +0000 http://shalimarsays.com/?p=31#comment-5 [...] One aspect of the Internet is speed, how quickly events can be recorded, disseminated and digested across the globe — those damn, freakin’ cellphone cams! Iran’s presidential election last summer is a pure, prime example. Online allows anyone, anywhere at anytime to become a reporter, or more like it, a chronicler of events, places and things. Videos of just about every human situation has cropped up online to be viewed potentially near-instantly by billions of people, which makes the point — way, way-too-much information is thrown at the brain nowadays, and it’s not just via the Internet — witness all that horrifying shit bill-boarded off racked magazines on grocery-store check-out lines; we’re trapped there, forced to read glaring headlines on all kinds of cultural-personality-obsessed, dumb-fuck stories. (Read a loony essay I wrote last year on media here). [...] [...] One aspect of the Internet is speed, how quickly events can be recorded, disseminated and digested across the globe — those damn, freakin’ cellphone cams! Iran’s presidential election last summer is a pure, prime example. Online allows anyone, anywhere at anytime to become a reporter, or more like it, a chronicler of events, places and things. Videos of just about every human situation has cropped up online to be viewed potentially near-instantly by billions of people, which makes the point — way, way-too-much information is thrown at the brain nowadays, and it’s not just via the Internet — witness all that horrifying shit bill-boarded off racked magazines on grocery-store check-out lines; we’re trapped there, forced to read glaring headlines on all kinds of cultural-personality-obsessed, dumb-fuck stories. (Read a loony essay I wrote last year on media here). [...]

]]> http://shalimarsays.com/?p=31&cpage=1#comment-4 Media and the Brain | The Gaia Resource Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:51:50 +0000 http://shalimarsays.com/?p=31#comment-4 [...] More: Media and the Brain [...] [...] More: Media and the Brain [...]

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