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Media: A. The media industry is made up of newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and online media. See also Television, Newspaper, Cinema, Social Media, Internet. - B. In information theory, the medium is a channel through which information is transmitted. The medium can be a radio wave, a cable, or a piece of paper. See also Information theory.
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Nicholas Negroponte on Media - Dictionary of Arguments

Pariser I 30
Media/Negroponte: (1994) thesis: the television of the future will make a pre-selection according to the preferences of the individual viewer, in which one can choose between individual compilations, but these compilations have been pre-selected according to the preferences of the viewer.(1)
A personal newspaper could also be printed overnight in a single copy. (2)
Ultimately, intelligent agents could be used to carry out these selections. (3)
LanierVsNegroponte: this idea is wrong and malicious (...) when it comes to whether the internet will be much better or much worse than television. (4) One would see a kind of cartoon version of the world through these agents. Companies would hardly develop agents that would stand in the way of their profits. It is not clear who they are working for.(4)
Sunstein I 8
Media/Negroponte: Nicholas Negroponte prophesied early on the emergence of a completely personalized newspaper, "Daily Me", in which each of us only chooses what one likes and what interests him/her.(5)
SunsteinVsNegroponte: The main problem is the formation of information universes (information cocoons) in which we only hear what we ourselves have chosen and what we like.
>Filter Bubbles/Pariser.
I 9
Problem/Sunstein: a company will not thrive with information cocoons if its own decisions are not questioned from within. ((s) From the inside out with information gained externally - a challenge from the outside would only come too late if the company shows weaknesses due to its self-centeredness.

1. Nicholas Negroponte, Total Digital, München: Goldmann, 1997, S. 66.
2. Ibid. S. 191
3. Negroponte, 01. 03.1995, E-Mail an den Herausgeber, Wired.com, 03. 03.1995, www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.03/negroponte.html.
4. Jaron Lanier, »Agents of Alienation«, aufgerufen am 30. 01. 2011, www.jaronlanier.com/agentalien.html
5. Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital (New York: Vintage, 1995), 153. In Cass R. Sunstein, Republic.com (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), I extend and explore this possibility.


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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Negropo I
Nicholas Negroponte
Being Digital New York 1996

Pariser I
Eli Pariser
The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think London 2012

Sunstein I
Cass R. Sunstein
Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge Oxford 2008

Sunstein II
Cass R. Sunstein
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media Princeton 2017


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