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Streaming has structurally displaced broadcast media — now 44.8% of US TV usage versus broadcast and cable combined — but the social consequences remain genuinely contested: fragmentation may broaden cultural exposure or merely substitute one algorithmic monoculture for another, and whether social cohesion requires shared cultural content or only shared institutions is a values dispute that data alone cannot settle. The old broadcast monoculture is simultaneously mourned as lost civic glue and indicted as an exclusionary cartel, with non-Western scholars adding that its decline often represents reclamation rather than loss — a tension the briefing maps but does not resolve. Critical causal questions remain open: longitudinal evidence on whether transnational fan communities can substitute for cross-class solidarity, and whether media fragmentation independently drives institutional trust decline or merely tracks economic insecurity and partisan sorting, are both absent from the current literature.
Multiple critics identified the finale of Game of Thrones, released in 2019, as the end of the monoculture and predicted that media would become fragmented in ...
by H Metzler · 2023 · Cited by 391 — Algorithmic mechanisms on digital media are powered by social drivers, creating a feedback loop that complicates research to disentangle the role of algorithms
And while broadcast and cable viewing have declined (down 21% and 39%, respectively, compared with May 2021), traditional TV has shown ...
Bakshy, Messing and Adamic (2015) explored filter bubbles in the field of political opinions on Facebook. They concluded that Facebook ...
by A Bruns · 2019 · Cited by 504 — “The myth of the filter bubble”, above all, “is one thing: a big misunderstanding” (Meineck, 2018, n.p.; my translation). But while that ...
We find a statistically significant positive effect of using streaming platforms on the diversity of cultural consumption as well as on ...
This paper analyses and compares national strategies for digital identity management in OECD countries. Growing up in the social media age
The law has become effective as of February 2024, with certain rules already applying since August 2023 concerning the largest platforms and search engines ...
TikTok's self-learning algorithm serves up new videos as a seemingly endless stream, allowing users to be exposed to a large amount of new music quickly,
Cultural observers have been predicting the end of monoculture since before the social media era, but these prognostications only ...
In a fragmented media environment with seemingly endless sources of information to choose from, Americans' news habits have changed ...
UNESCO aims to ensure that everyone's freedom of expression, access to information and diverse cultural content are fully guaranteed,
Emphasis on shared customs has declined somewhat since 2016, including by double digits in Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom.
In summary, the work reviewed here suggests echo chambers are much less widespread than is commonly assumed, finds no support for the filter ...
by J Üblacker · 2024 · Cited by 24 — The aim of this article is to systematically review empirical studies on DICT, social media and neighbourhood social cohesion published over ...
by M Heřmanová · 2024 · Cited by 7 — In a similar vein, Kayle Chayka writes about the “end of monoculture” in his widely referenced essay, “Can monoculture survive the algorithm?
Again: Can monoculture survive the algorithm? eived universality that came with old media. My essay finds that “the monoculture” is actually ...
Across 27 countries surveyed, people generally see social media as more of a good thing than a bad thing for democracy.
The class is intended to present a broad overview of American politics through our nation's many socio-cultural and political divisions
... internet wants to be fragmented NOAH SMITH DECEMBER 16, 2022 https: //substack.com/redirect/f98acd2f-7f76-4e33- b512-859642f9fd51?j ...
Yet for much of its history, well into the middle decades of the twentieth century, it was the “labor question,” not the question of inequality, that preoccupied the Left. Or, to put things differently, the Left treated the inequality question as derivative — that is to say, as embraced by the labor...
However, there is an additional and distinct approach to all of the questions above, which emphasizes socio-structural transformations in the labor market rather than elite politics or exogenous constraints: most of the processes above should also be understood with reference to increasing labor mar...
Consistent with existing scholarship on political economy, we expect governments dominated by left-wing parties to be associated with lower compositional inequality. This is because left-wing parties have traditionally shared a commitment to greater egalitarianism. The policies that they pursue whil...
Yet, the most striking finding of our analysis is that the equalizing effect of the Left in government has decreased over time and has become not significant since the 1980s. Moreover, the analysis also shows that in the last 40 years, the Left in government has become indistinguishable from the Cen...
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