Tiago Mata » new media http://tmata.com History of Social Science, Journalism and Opinion Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Twitter stars http://tmata.com/2009/09/twitter-stars/ http://tmata.com/2009/09/twitter-stars/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:06:24 +0000 Tiago http://tmata.com/?p=191 tweet-volume- the economists

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]]> http://tmata.com/2009/09/twitter-stars/feed/ 1 Context http://tmata.com/2009/05/context/ http://tmata.com/2009/05/context/#comments Sun, 24 May 2009 09:18:24 +0000 Tiago http://obitoque.com/tmata-word/?p=72 liberalsI hear Eric Alterman, blogger, professor, book author, in a podcast from the Woodrow Wilson School on the “The Future of News”. The session was roughly devoted to the economics of print, although very little of that go mentioned. There was on interesting passing remark by Alterman, that today’s media is mostly opinion, in loose paraphrase, to “provide context to the news.” News is everywhere, diffuse, instantaneous, and repeated in the print media, so the new journalist ventures mainly online focus on “context.”

Context is thrown back and forth in academic and semi-academic settings as a good thing. But the more it gets invoked the less I understand what it refers to.

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