Entries Tagged - "media"

Dec 28 2024The $500 Question - How Media Framing Shapes Our Reality

“In this season of giving, what are we to make of a billionaire with a soft spot for striving graduates who draws a hard line on being present for the pomp and circumstance, no matter the circumstances?” - New York Times

The modern media apparatus doesn’t just report news - it manufactures reality through carefully constructed narratives that shape how we process and respond to events. This process has become so refined that different outlets can take the same event and create entirely separate realities, each designed to reinforce specific worldviews and emotional responses in their target audiences.

Nov 30 2022Batman Is Kind of Strange as a Concept

Have you ever really sat down and thought about Batman? I had a surplus of spare time on my hands recently, so I went back and played through Batman: Arkham City. When it originally came out, people consistently told me it was good, but I never got around to playing it because I just never cared about superhero comics or any other type of cape media. It’s a middling game - lot’s of time wasting minigames - but I’m not here to elaborate on the game much further, just use it as a tool to examine how weird Batman is as a character.