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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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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Clay Shirky on Media - Dictionary of Arguments

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Media/Shirky: new social media remove the bottleneck that characterized mass media: not everyone could publish. Today we see instead mass amateurisation: everyone can be a photographer and publish texts.
>Social media
, >Social networks, >Internet, >Internet culture,
>Information production.
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Communication costs have fallen dramatically. This means that control of the media is no longer solely in the hands of professional media people.

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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.

Shirky I
Clay Shirky
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations New York 2009


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