All posts tagged: media

Wanna watch the whole Olympics? Peacock delivers this year.

July 28, 2024
by Nicholas Knisely
Current Affairs / Rhode Island / Web/Tech

Every time the Olympics are broadcast prior to this year, it’s been an exercise in frustration trying to follow the events I’m interested in watching. I used to be on an Archery team, I taught riding, as a former dancer/choreographer I want to watch Rhythmic Gymnastics and now that I live in Rhode Island I want to watch ALL the sailing events. I seem to be the only person in the US who’s got that […]

Twitter and the collapse of coalitions.

January 18, 2020
by Nicholas Knisely
Centrists / Futurism / Reconciliation / SOSc / Web/Tech

Walter Ong, a Jesuit who studied linguistics was fascinated by the difference between oral and literary cultures. Oral cultures value one sort of communication structure and literate ones another. (The difference is explained in The Atlantic article by Robinson Meyer linked below.) Twitter (and to a similar degree Facebook, and I guess in a way even Instagram and Snapchat) represents an intersection between the oral and literary communication paradigms. Meyer writes: Before Ong died in […]