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The Daily Me
“The Daily Me” means going online as our own editor/gatekeeper, to select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. So what’s the problem?
[node:ad]Nicholas Kristof quite nicely sums up the danger of our self-selection of a narrow range of news online, in a New York Times column.
“When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper.
We select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about,” he
notes, citing social science studies to back this up. He notes Nicholas
Negroponte of M.I.T. coined the name “The Daily Me” for our online news
habit and warns, “there’s pretty good evidence that we generally don’t
truly want good information — but rather information that confirms our
prejudices. We may believe intellectually in the clash of opinions, but
in practice we like to embed ourselves in the reassuring womb of an
echo chamber.”
Deborah Jones
March 19, 2009
How do you combat “The Daily
How do you combat “The Daily Them?”
Where you and your community are ONLY exposed to the “prejudices” of those in power and great influence… so great, in fact, that “news and opinions” are more like dictates to the local population?
Bias and Agenda are not new to our mediums, of print, audo and video… however, for the first time ever, communities and individuals have the power that only Church, State and Commerce could excercise in the past… the Power of Guttenburg… TO PUBLISH! (Thanks to the Web).
“The Daily Them” have no problem getting their ideals and influence out to the great unwashed… thank you very much.
We need to be more stringent in attempting to balance the “news & opinions,” so that we can have an honest dialogue around our complex problems.
Writing from a “one horse town” – Saint John, New Brunswick, CANADA.
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