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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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Evgeny Morozov on Media - Dictionary of Arguments

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Media/newspaper/printmedia/Morozov: Newspapers no longer publish articles that their readers are not interested in; the increasing spread of self-tracking in connection with social networking data guarantees that everyone can read a highly individualized newspaper (apart from the word level!) that delivers the highest possible click rate. No story is unclicked, every headline is tweeted.
>Newspapers
, >Search engines, >Internet/Morozov, >Social Media, >Social Networks.
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Media/Internet/Meme/Intermediaries/filter/Morozov: just as the Church was seen by many as an unnecessary and destructive intermediary between believers and God, so publication media are accused of blocking direct access to memes and ideas. "The Internet" is a solution that frees the meme from the hands of the creative elites.
>Memes.
No one is more impressed by this highly democratizing development than Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon. He likes to boast that he is committed to eliminating gatekeepers because they are the cause of "slow innovation".

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