America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power,
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KazzaDrask Media
onto Communications Major November 12, 2024 1:51 PM
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This site started 13 years ago, with the advent of a new style of communicating that was fast becoming the best way of keeping connected. For the most part, I've tried every shiny new toy and celebrated most of them. Even as the backlash started, I still held firm that Facebook was the best way to keep in touch with family and old friends; Instagram was a great way to share photos and build community from those images; Twitter was an amazing place for real-time news (deleted my account when Elon bought it -- at least I had the foresight to see bad things were coming over there).
I began studying media in college, as a "communications major" (and an English major, too). My first job was as an editorial assistant for a New York publishing company that had recently relocated to my hometown of Norwalk, CT. Within 2 years of that job (old school, every desk had a typewriter to complete triplicate forms; we trafficked paper manuscript pages to galleys to blues to bound book), I took a new job for a smaller company that became a pioneer in the desktop publishing industry. Two years later, then two more years after that, I was getting managing editor jobs in New York and California, leading these companies' desktop revolution.
By 1994 (yes, 30 years ago!), I'd left the day job racket to go freelance. I could edit on my home computer by now -- clients sent me floppy disks through the mail. But what I really wanted to do was write. For the next several years, I balanced writing and editing as technology steam-rolled us into the 21st century. Everything was going online. Many of my early bylines were on now-defunct websites. I used to print out my articles. Good thing -- you can't find many of them anywhere but in a binder in my basement now.
Twenty years ago the work I had always done -- writing, editing, proofreading, graphic design/layout, research, fact-checking -- was now called "content creation". It had to be produced faster than ever, and we all suffered from those results. You may have started noticing a typo in an esteemed publication you had always subscribed to that was known for never having them. That was just the beginning. There wasn't enough time to do thoughtful research that yielded those big think pieces we used to have the time to wait for -- and then consume. Fast-checking? Why waste the money to pay for that -- everyone has an Internet connection now. If they don't believe you, surely they can look up more about your subject and prove you wrong -- or right. But even so, communications were flying by us so quickly, we simply couldn't keep up. To combat that, we created our own information silos. Follow those we agree with, tune out the noise. And as a result, everyone's ability to be a critical thinker took a hit, some more than others.
My next pivot, about 10 years ago was the wonderful world of video production and documentary filmmaking. Even I, a lifelong reader and wordsmith, saw the "writing" on the wall -- and it was images. Add a voiceover and some music and post it to YouTube, SnapChat, TikTok. People react to short videos with their feelings. Emojis become even more important. A like, a love, some laughter, some tears, some anger, even shock. Feelings, however, are not facts. And, we scrolled on, continuing to freely input all our information into the hands of some of the worst actors.
[Disclaimer: A lot of my video work was done within the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem. I've followed all the players here for years.]
Online communications -- and all that it's spawned -- did not start out this way, But power sure does corrupt. We're about to find out how much.
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