mass media

Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, discusses “Personal Media” on 17 minute streaming video [link updated] in part one of a series entitled “Media, Education, and the Marketplace.” Professor Miyagawa’s insights are fascinating and dovetail with the role that the founders of pingV have envisioned. Professor Miyagawa speaks of “story telling,” which is a pingV pillar. He speaks to how learning is changing and how the role of mass media is central....

I asked a historian of women’s issues, “In the 1920’s, and recently, there were great strides for women’s rights. Why did it fade away?” The answer got was not one I expected. “It didn’t. The media merely stopped reporting it.” Whether it is Tiananmen Square or Washington Square, if people can communicate, they can rally around a cause. When there is a coup, what’s one of the first things the leaders take over?...