Algorithms, Intuition and Networked Activism by Carolyn Pedwell

“…In Thumbelina (2015), for example, the late French philosopher and media theorist Michel Serres argues that millennials are not only the first generation to experience the internet and related forms of digital media in their adolescence, they have also been comprehensively ‘[re]-formatted by the media’, and, thus, ‘no longer have the same body or behavior’ as previous generations (2015: 5-6). …”
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Book Review Digital Fever: Taming the Big Business of Disinformation, by Bernhard Poerksen by Florența Toader

“…In addressing the shifting media landscape heavily influenced by the advent of social media, the book reflects on trends like digital disinformation, emotional manipulation, or the erosion of traditional media gatekeepers. Poerksen is a media theorist, who teaches Media studies at the University of Tu¨bingen, and whose works on the new media age have largely been appreciated in Germany. …”
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