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1. Given the available media that we now have in the world, what are its roles and functions in a democratic
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A democratic society reserves legal space for journalists to act. Journalism is the chief method the public has to learn about the workings of its government thus allowing the public to exert oversight. Journalists also investigate non-governmental entities and report on social institutions and their activity. With the advent of cellular video recording the public itself is a latent primary source of content complementing official recordings of activity in the public space. Social networks have usurped traditional tv and print media distributors and the public now relies on peer-referenced content. This has accelerated the politically polarizing dynamics of digitally inter-connected society. The explosion of media sources, plurality of journalistic standards/motives, and content-sharing networks paradoxically distort media consumption into compartmentalized echo chambers.
Political entities employ para-hacker networks to weaponize these echo chambers by inserting hoaxes and viral memes that prime targets to impulsively adopt compromised points of view and to share the propaganda before verifying its authenticity. The legal space for the free flow of political ideas and information that is a staple of democratic societies has in this decade lead to a collapse in the objective value of news, ideas, science, and even basic facts.
If Free Speech is the lifeblood of a democratic society it may be that the Free Flow of Free Speech is a critical threat to democratic society. Media consumers as a whole are not culturally mature enough to distinguish valid news from invalid news. When the U.S. shared its mainstream news between a few broadcast networks society could agree on a shared set of facts, a communal reality. Journalistic institutions are in the process of pivoting their societal role providing content for a population living in a shared reality to customizing content for a fragmented public living in a contested reality.
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