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If the medium is the message, and constant outrage fuels the media in order to sell advertising, then how can we make the situation better? The medium is not just the message, it is our environment and we collectively need new media literacy. But this is not the kind of literacy most educators and politicians are talking about.

https://jarche.com/2019/03/constant-outrage/

#democracy #media #literacy
"The product they're pitching is outrage" —Grant Stern

McLuhan's media tetrad:
every medium - 
extends a human property,
obsolesces the previous medium (& often makes it a luxury good), retrieves a much older medium, &
reverses its properties when pushed to its limits

social media—

EXTEND emotion
OBSOLESCE print
REVERSE into constant outrage
RETRIEVE oral discourse