THE COGNITIVE CHANGES INDUCED BY NEW FORMS OF MEDIA AND THE RISE OF SELF-ORGANIZED GROUPS ONLINE

ABSTRACT. Shirky maintains that we are living in the middle of the largest increase in expressive capability in the history of the human race. Johnson emphasizes that what media has lost in moral clarity it has gained in realism. Jones thinks that the nation’s traditional news organizations are being transformed into tabloid news organizations. (pp. 290–298)

Keywords: media, online, news, organization, tabloid, group