Authors:
Luke Skrebowski
Despite the depressed state of world markets, magazines, TV channels, radio stations, and gaming platforms continue to proliferate and diversify at a rapid pace, saturating our audiovisual landscape with a riot of competing offerings. As Todd Gitlin, professor of Journalism and Sociology at New York University puts it: "Never have so many communicated so much, on so many screens, through so many channels, absorbing so many hours of irreplaceable human attention... the obvious but hard-to-grasp truth is that living with the media is today one of the main things human beings do." Yet famously, familiarity breeds contempt. As in…
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