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Tom 3 Nr 2: Fall 2010

Seeking the H Zone: How we mix media messages to create compatible community in the emerging papyrus society

  • Donald Shaw
  • Sherine El-Toukhy
  • Tom Terry
Przesłane
stycznia 1, 2010
Opublikowane
2010-01-01

Abstrakt

Seeking the H Zone: How we mix media messages to create compatible community in the emerging papyrus society

 

The emergence of personal media provides new opportunities to relate to our social world. Newspapers, network radio and television and news magazines reach down vertically, as it were, to reach everyone, men and women, rich and poor. Social media, such as magazines, websites, Facebook and Twitter, reach across horizontally to connect with communities already interested in particular topics. The availability of these two types of media allows us to pick and choose among agenda items to find a level of personal or horizontal comfort among messages that tell us what we should be doing and messages that entice us to do what we want to do. In short, this paper argues, we mix media agendas to create compatible public and private communities. The media agenda communities that are emerging are more like the flat strips that make papyrus paper than the massive stones that characterize the pyramids that dominate the horizon, an emerging papyrus society where authority is much more democratized and fused.