The News as a Social Process for Improving Society
The News as a Social Process for Improving Society
Yves Citton: "While machines can 'read' data, only human subjectivities can 'interpret' them."
Yves Citton: "While machines can 'read' data, only human subjectivities can 'interpret' them."
Everything we learn, know and understand is physical โ a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood, how campaigns are framed, why conservatives and progressives talk past each other, and why progressives have more problems framing messages than conservatives do โ and what they can do about it.
Nancy Baym asks, "How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren't before?"
Close reading requires that the scholar immerse herself in the experience of the text on its own terms, and at the same time maintain a critical distance.