It's too easy to provide superlative descriptions to media events: "unprecedented!", "incredible!", and so on.
But the past month did witness the first-ever attachment of a warning to a Twitter post from President Trump, about mail voting. And that was in the midst of the worldwide upheaval, fueled and fact-checked by citizen video, of the police killing of George Floyd, and its aftermath.
We have a lot to talk about in this month's media overview, Signals & Noise. Our regulars return, Precious Yamaguchi and Andrew Gay from the Communication faculty at Southern Oregon University.
Social media? Virtual reality? Books? Any and all media and content is on the table.
Precious's Pick Three:
- Fashion in the pandemic
- Kate Messner's Over and Under the Pond
- Shalini Kantayya's film "Coded Bias"
Andrew's Pick Three, all authors he found on Twitter: