Digital Media Overload
Yet despite the opportunities presented by digital media for the propagation of knowledge and information, it is becoming increasingly evident that a new schema of intellectual disenfranchisement is occurring at a rapid pace. While viewpoints out of the mainstream, once considered 'radical' or 'extremist,' are more widely available than once before, there is a growing perpetuation of what I describe as a regurgitation -- or echo chamber as my colleague said -- of the same hackneyed issues and events that are played out in the internet's version of the '24 hour news cycle.' [Read the rest of this article...]
