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The trap of the mirror metaphor in relation to media

The claim is that media hold a mirror to society. The pretense is that this mirror is non-distortionary. The narrative is that a reality exists and it is merely reflected so as to afford a collective self-image. Clearly, giving someone the power to define your self-image constitutes an unwise move in terms of giving away [...]

2012 03 01 Dimitris Makris Comments (0)

The camera frame that captures an event cannot be neutral

          It is sounds like a truism or an empty generalization to argue that any reporting of an event is somehow skewed. The other day, however, I experienced an illustration of this principle in a noteworthy manner. The first day of the Greek “indignados” demonstration had started in Syntagma Square in Athens – [...]

2011 06 01 Dimitris Makris Comments (0)