padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
not in the same way as old media, but there are trade-offs. there's vastly less accountability, so it easy for unverified rumors to spread like wildfire.the information you get on twitter isn't limited by the special interest of any indiviudal user
and manipulation, which old media was/is vulnerable to, but in the same way or to the same degree
idk the ins and outs of platform - Twitter FB etc - manipulation but surely it is a booming field as we've seen in the last few years
ultimately a more democratic "shaping of reality" is almost definitely an improvement, but I wouldn't cheerlead for it so uncritically
surely we're headed toward a more complete Internet of Things merging of old/new media, the continuation of that process