Actually, contemporary communications . . . that is, not the mass communications of the twentieth century, but the point to point communications of the twenty-first . . . seem to facilitate the emergence of a more fractionated culture, by making it easy for people with unusual interests to find each other regardless of distance. I just coauthored a book for Steve Jackson Games; only one of my three co-authors was in the United States while we worked on it . . . another was in Australia and the third in Japan. I interact much more actively with other members of the Libertarian Futurist Society now that we have the Internet rather than depending on print.
The emergence of this more differentiated culture in fact is alarming some people who are committed to monoculture, whether ideologically (as when columnists and book authors worry about people turning away from the consensus of the mass media to get news from their own ideological or cultural communities) or economically (as in print and television journalists bemoaning the economic failure of the mass media and often asking the government to step in and subsidize them).
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Date: 2010-04-03 03:48 pm (UTC)The emergence of this more differentiated culture in fact is alarming some people who are committed to monoculture, whether ideologically (as when columnists and book authors worry about people turning away from the consensus of the mass media to get news from their own ideological or cultural communities) or economically (as in print and television journalists bemoaning the economic failure of the mass media and often asking the government to step in and subsidize them).