March 15, 2010 at 10:55Attempt to escape
In the late 90s and early 2000s, a kind of informational “thaw” formed: there were a lot of people and information on the Internet, but traditional offline mass media did not come here seriously.
Around the same time, a layer of people appeared who said:
“I basically do not watch TV, and do not read newspapers; I protect the brain from advertising, politics, and other zombies. I find the information I need on my own on the Internet. ”
Very little time passed, and life showed the impossibility of falling out of the "universal information flow."
If earlier we tried through TV / newspapers / radio to:
- make us think in the “right” way,
- convince us to buy something,
- vote for someone,
- to sympathize with certain actions of certain states or individuals,
- to hate certain actions of certain states or individuals,
... all this has completely come to the Internet. If earlier the recipients of information were “viewers / listeners / readers”, now a new category of “users” has appeared. Just one more category. Another one. Information delivery channels have changed a little - videos of the same offline media began to be watched on Youtube / RuTube, all radio stations began to broadcast on the Internet, the media filled all the visited resources, and so-called "Thousands", "ten-thousandths", and "hundred-thousandths" in LJ began to write implicitly paid posts. And IP-TV has become widespread ;-)
If now someone says “I do not watch TV to maintain the objectivity of perception” - it will look at least ridiculous. However, there are still reasons not to watch TV - you can watch downloaded films without interruptions in advertising, and sites without banners. (However, this has already begun to change: many videos have become impossible to watch without introductory advertising, and cutting banners in some places already leads to non-display of the main content of the site).
In a word, the attempt to escape failed.
Probably, the only possible way out in such a situation is not “running away from ...” (they’ll catch up anyway), but the development of critical thinking in itself, the cultivation of certain filters that will pass information through themselves, distinguishing and cutting off the "imposition" of another's point of view. How exactly to do this is probably the topic of another article; however, some methods "the old fashioned way" also must still be relevant.
According to the canonical rules of journalism, this article must be completed with a beautifully executed conclusion, in a few words conveying the main idea that the author wanted to express. I’m probably not going to write these words (the reader, I hope, already understood something from the text of the main part of the article), but I’ll put a picture. Here's one:
Thank you for your attention.
Especially for Habr, from cyberpunk.name
Around the same time, a layer of people appeared who said:
“I basically do not watch TV, and do not read newspapers; I protect the brain from advertising, politics, and other zombies. I find the information I need on my own on the Internet. ”
Very little time passed, and life showed the impossibility of falling out of the "universal information flow."
If earlier we tried through TV / newspapers / radio to:
- make us think in the “right” way,
- convince us to buy something,
- vote for someone,
- to sympathize with certain actions of certain states or individuals,
- to hate certain actions of certain states or individuals,
... all this has completely come to the Internet. If earlier the recipients of information were “viewers / listeners / readers”, now a new category of “users” has appeared. Just one more category. Another one. Information delivery channels have changed a little - videos of the same offline media began to be watched on Youtube / RuTube, all radio stations began to broadcast on the Internet, the media filled all the visited resources, and so-called "Thousands", "ten-thousandths", and "hundred-thousandths" in LJ began to write implicitly paid posts. And IP-TV has become widespread ;-)
If now someone says “I do not watch TV to maintain the objectivity of perception” - it will look at least ridiculous. However, there are still reasons not to watch TV - you can watch downloaded films without interruptions in advertising, and sites without banners. (However, this has already begun to change: many videos have become impossible to watch without introductory advertising, and cutting banners in some places already leads to non-display of the main content of the site).
In a word, the attempt to escape failed.
Probably, the only possible way out in such a situation is not “running away from ...” (they’ll catch up anyway), but the development of critical thinking in itself, the cultivation of certain filters that will pass information through themselves, distinguishing and cutting off the "imposition" of another's point of view. How exactly to do this is probably the topic of another article; however, some methods "the old fashioned way" also must still be relevant.
According to the canonical rules of journalism, this article must be completed with a beautifully executed conclusion, in a few words conveying the main idea that the author wanted to express. I’m probably not going to write these words (the reader, I hope, already understood something from the text of the main part of the article), but I’ll put a picture. Here's one:
Thank you for your attention.
Especially for Habr, from cyberpunk.name