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North Korea executes defense chief with an anti-aircraft gun: South Korea agency

North Korea executes defense chief with an anti-aircraft gun: South Korea agency | Reuters

From an essay: “Consider, for instance, a Middle Age monarch of Europe. His (or, in those rare cases, her) visibility was limited to personal interaction in front of a small group of people at court, who possessed all the power, the land, and the money. Monarchs rarely appeared before the general public outside of court, and, when they did, they were displayed with elaborate ceremony designed to impress. A monarch was a remote figure to his subjects, almost all of whom would never see him or hear his voice, and he had absolutely no accountability to them.”

From Story: Experts on North Korea said there was no sign of instability in Pyongyang, but there could be if purges continued.

Why is North Korea executing high-level officials with anti-aircraft guns?

The point of such executions, of course, would be precisely to be gruesome and horrifying, to send a message to other officials of both the strength of the regime and the price of any disloyalty.

The greatest danger to Kim Jong Un's rule wouldn't be outside threats or even a popular uprising, but rather the circle of elites who surround him and keep him in power. So the young Kim may feel it's crucial to constantly signal that he is in charge and that top officials must stay in line. -- http://www.vox.com/2015/5/13/8598655/north-korea-execution

#new visibility

(via How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life - NYTimes.com)

From the presidential race to the battle for the office of New York City mayor, American political candidates’ approach to new media strategy is increasingly what makes or breaks their campaign. Targeted outreach on Facebook and Twitter, placement of a well-timed viral ad, and the ability to roll with the memes, flame wars, and downvotes that might spring from ordinary citizens’ engagement with the issues—these skills are heralded as crucial for anyone hoping to get their views heard in a chaotic election cycle. But just how effective are the kinds of media strategies that American politicians employ? And what effect, if any, do citizen-created political media have on the tide of public opinion? In Controlling the Message, Farrar-Myers and Vaughn curate a series of case studies that use real-time original research from the 2012 election season to explore how politicians and ordinary citizens use and consume new media during political campaigns. Broken down into sections that examine new media strategy from the highest echelons of campaign management all the way down to passive citizen engagement with campaign issues in places like online comment forums, the book ultimately reveals that political messaging in today’s diverse new media landscape is a fragile, unpredictable, and sometimes futile process. The result is a collection that both interprets important historical data from a watershed campaign season and also explains myriad approaches to political campaign media scholarship—an ideal volume for students, scholars, and political analysts alike.

Controlling the Message | New Media in American Political Campaigns | Books | NYU Press

(via 7 News Startups Lifting Up Democracy | Idea Lab | PBS)

After researching the app and speaking with a trainer from Xora, Plaintiff and her co-workers asked whether Intermex would be monitoring their movements while off duty. Stubits admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone. Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app's GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours and complained to Stubits that this was an invasion of her privacy. She likened the app to a prisoner's ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal. Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion…..

(via Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day | Ars Technica)

#new visibility #panopticon #privacy

Getting the News to Everyone, Not Just the Wealthy People with lower incomes have just as much of an appetite for information, but few media outlets keep them in mind. Can that imbalance be fixed?

(via Getting the News to Everyone, Not Just the Wealthy - The Atlantic)

"The mainstream scientific discourse ... is now extensively using a framing that was demonstrably created by contrarians. [This] constitutes a departure from standard scientific practice and is indicative of seepage."

Climate Change Denial Is Also Impacting Scientists Themselves - Pacific Standard

#framing #false equivalence

(via GIPHY Founder: Why GIFs Are the Words of the Future - PSFK)

FROM ORALITY TO VISUALITY?

GIPHY creator: We don’t have time for words anymore because they aren’t fast enough or descriptive enough (PSFK) Adam Leibsohn, founder of GIF search engine GIPHY, says words are becoming a thing of the past. Leibsohn says words were needed for communicating before computers and the Internet made ideas portable, but now words aren’t descriptive or fast enough to convey our ideas. Leibsohn’s solution to that problem is GIFs. Leibsohn says: “Even though they’re small and simple, they pack all kinds of joy. … When you send just the right one, you make everyone a little happier.”

#interaction

'Bourbon Empire' Reveals The Smoke And Mirrors Of American Whiskey

'Bourbon Empire' Reveals The Smoke And Mirrors Of American Whiskey : The Salt : NPR

#advertising #construction of reality

(via To the Media, "Black" Is Too Often Shorthand for "Poor" - The Atlantic)

#inculcation #media effects

(via 'Thank God for Cellphone Video Cameras' - The Atlantic)

#Rashomon

"A lot of the time, the difference between hip and unhip is just reference. "

#culture #context #journalism #heuristics

#close reading

#PR

The 5 eras of Web literacy:

1993-1997: The Information Superhighway 1999-2002: The Wild West 2003-2007: The Web 2.0 era 2008-2012: The Era of the App 2013+: The Post-Snowden era

My hope is that in this new fifth era, we understand the Web for what it is, a platform for human flourishing. Perhaps we will learn to teach current and next generations how to read, write and participate, effectively using it.

#CMI #tech

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