{"id":2751,"date":"2008-06-16T21:35:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T21:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2008-06-16T21:35:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T21:35:51","slug":"first-post-up-at-complex-terrain-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2751","title":{"rendered":"First Post up at Complex Terrain Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of a part &#8220;theory&#8221;, part &#8220;futurism&#8221; post as my introduction to <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.terraplexic.org\/\">CTLab<\/a><\/strong> readers:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.terraplexic.org\/review\/2008\/6\/16\/visualcy-and-the-human-terrain.html\">Visualcy and the Human Terrain<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>As a result of public education, the rise of mass-media and commercial advertising, Western nations and Japan, some earlier but all by mid-20th century, became relatively homogenized in the processing of information as well as having a dominant vital &#8220;consensus&#8221; on cultural and political values with postwar Japan probably being the most extreme example. The range between elite and mass opinion naturally\u00a0narrowed as more citizens shared similar\u00a0outlooks and the same\u00a0sources of information,\u00a0as did the avenues for acceptable dissent.\u00a0A characteristic of\u00a0modern society\u00a0examined at length by thinkers as diverse as Ortega y Gasset, Edward Bernays, Marshall McLuhan and Alvin Toffler.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;.Interestingly enough, despite complaints by American conservatives regarding the political bias of news outlets like al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya, these organizations are packaging news in the familiar &#8220;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/News-Culture-Lying-Paul-Weaver\/dp\/0029340217\"><strong>Pulitzerian frame<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#8221; in which mass media have been structuring information for over a century. Effectively, habituating their audience to a Western style (if not content) of thinking and information processing, with all of the advantages and shortcomings in terms of speed and superficiality that we associate with television news broadcasting. This phenomena, along with streaming internet video content like Youtube and &#8211; very, very, soon, <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/\"><strong>mass-based Web 2.0 video social networks <\/strong><\/a><strong>&#8211; will overlay the aforementioned complexity in regard to the range of education and literacy.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.terraplexic.org\/review\/2008\/6\/16\/visualcy-and-the-human-terrain.html\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kind of a part &#8220;theory&#8221;, part &#8220;futurism&#8221; post as my introduction to CTLab readers: Visualcy and the Human Terrain As a result of public education, the rise of mass-media and commercial advertising, Western nations and Japan, some earlier but all by mid-20th century, became relatively homogenized in the processing of information as well as having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,46,487,24,20,9,537,215,37,460,139,472,13,61,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-analytic","category-brain","category-cognition","category-coin","category-complexity","category-ctlab","category-culture","category-futurism","category-io","category-media","category-public-diplomacy","category-theory","category-visualization","category-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}