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The limit of balance between Political system & Media system
In the middle of the twentieth century, media became a platform where politicians could advertise themselves and, at the same time, a…window where citizens could access to information from journalists who had full knowledge on politics (Platforms and Windows theory, Katz). This would be a relationship of interdependence, in terms of Umberto Eco’s conceptualizations. ¶ The relationship between the political system and the media system has been distorted by promoting a model of professionalized political communication or communication strategy studies to create appropriate messages to achieve specific strategic targets or…
Oriol Moya CànovasDec 26, 2015
This Is Not A Thinkpiece about The Paris Attacks
I’ve just spent the last seven hours live-tweeting translations of tweets from Paris. Though I’m not there, I am filled with raw mental…images from inside the Bataclan, where hundreds of people attending a concert witnessed people being shot slowly, one by one, people too afraid to move lest they be the next to be executed. People desperately searching for lost loved ones — sound found, most not. People sending prayers, messages of support, and also insipid political commentary. ¶ I’m not going to talk about politics. I’m not going to speculate on how the National Front is going to use the attacks to spur an Islamophobic…
Shawn CarriéNov 13, 2015
