Quotes About Media

In summary, there is nothing much to the conversion of energy into matter and vice versa. The first actual transformation of light into matter without the participation of other particles, accomplished in 1997, generated a huge response from the media. The technical problems encountered in order to achieve this goal were enormous-but there was nothing particularly new in the result itself. The same holds for the recent assembly of antimatter from antiparticles.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Dick believed that we all live in a world where 'spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups - and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.

In other words, we live in Philip K. Dick's future, not George Orwell's or Aldous Huxley's ... Dick believed that we all live in a world where 'spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political group - and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayadère of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising — only these stand a chance.

Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.

By discussing "spreadable media," we aim to facilitate a more nuanced account of how and why things spread and to encourage our readers to adopt and help build a more holistic and sustainable model for understanding how digital culture operates.

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What do Fans produce? Fans produce meanings and interpretations; fans produce art-works; fans produce communities; fans produce alternative Identities. In each case, fans are drawing on materials from the dominant media and employing them in ways that serve their own interests and facilitate their own pleasures.

Presidential campaigns are on the verge of turning into media contests between master operators of the Internet. What once had been substantive debates about the content of governance will reduce candidates to being spokesmen for a marketing effort pursued by methods whose intrusiveness would have been considered only a generation ago the stuff of science fiction. The

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

The public sees science as some monolithic edifice of unbending rules and beliefs, and—thanks to the media's portrayal of scientists as uptight nerds in white coats—sees scientists as stodgy old artery-hardened defenders of the status quo.

The technology which, in our culture, has released urban and even rural man from the quiet before his hearth log has debauched his taste. Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.

At some point during a celebrity tour of the ice fields, or first-growth forest — lately, the Amazon — he always phoned Holly in an agony of scab-picking, telling her that a respectable media would cover an issue on its merits, not because some overwrought self-involved actress had helicoptered in and aimed her affectations at the camera.

If the media were doing their investigative job properly, the net of deviants would either be widened or abandoned altogether as ludicrous, as more and more of society's members - more and more members of the public - would be implicated in the tracing of this net. To single out sex workers serves a specific function: it removes the "disciplinary gaze" from all others.

Are you a journalist?" "I'm a doctor." "Good. We need doctors, Wallahi ." Sadoon scowled. "Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.

There are a lot of people who say we need to cut the amount of money that's spent in politics. I'm not sure that I agree. But I am sure that if you were talking about cutting the amount of money spent in politics, the media would have a strong interest in opposing you, because they make an enormous amount of money from political advertisements.

And how about Jennifer Lopez in that dress at the Golden Globes? The referees ruled it incomplete.

For over against the convenience of instantaneous communication is the fact that the great economical abstractions of writing, reading, and drawing, the media of reflective thought and deliberate action, will be weakened.

Con i mezzi di comunicazione di massa su grandi distanze, l'isolamento della popolazione si è rivelato un mezzo di controllo molto efficace.