It is interesting to start with the idea that Denny put forward in his article, Radio Builds Democracy, through which he talked about how radio bridged people to conduct public education by providing different points of view (Denny, 1941). The dimension of the network, back then, was closely knitted and... More
To understand the changes to production and especially cultural production regarding content creation, we have first to understand the changes in technology that may have impacted the structures the most. With the enhancement of mobile and social technologies, we have seen changes in not only cultural production but what it... More
Recent years have seen a return of political economic approaches to analyzing manifold facets of digital media (see, e.g., Gehl, 2014; Rigi & Prey, 2015; Obar & Oeldorf-Hirsch, 2018). This perspective is especially relevant, as the hegemonic influence of technology on society is perhaps best understood as a confluence of... More
You don’t have to look farther than the success of show’s like Black Mirror or Stranger Things to see how, currently, content creation matters to cultural production. While many of the fictional storylines presented in these shows are based on actual technology we have already created and oftentimes already use... More
Back to 1901, L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, came up with the idea of “Character Marker” consisting of a pair of spectacles to mark people’s characters on their forehead in his novel The Master Key, which was regarded as the very first vision of Augmented... More