“The tribalizing power of the new electronic media, the way in which they return to us to the unified fields of the old oral cultures, to tribal cohesion and pre-individualist patterns of thought, is little understood. Tribalism is the sense of the deep bond of family, the closed society as the norm of community.” WayLittlesCultureCommunityMediaFieldsReturnUnderstoodPatternsNormUnifiedTribalismCohesionElectronic Media Book:Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication
“Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.” PlaySocialPowerfulRolesMediaNormSocial NormsPerpetuating Author:Jackson Katz
“I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.” I CanReasonStoriesHateAttentionRiskMediaFitEnvironmentalJournalismReason WhyConventionalNormAdequate Author:Andrew Revkin
“Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.” Has BeensIdeasSelfSeemsPastHalfCenturyMediaTelevisionNewsConservativeToleranceLiberalismDelusionBiasFoxesNormSurrealObjectivityOver The PastFox NewsDeviationSelf Delusion Author:David Limbaugh
“Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media.” TryingCultureProcessEnjoyKnowingMediaExpectedBoundariesLinkedNormExpandingBlackness Author:Baratunde Thurston
“It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social media - Twitter's 140-character limit, for instance - start to influence what we're used to.” HardCharacterHappensUsedReadingSocialInfluenceMediaLimitsUniversalSocial MediaScreensInstanceNormFormat140 Character Author:Michael Bierut