WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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Host Deb Kent talks with Mark Deuze, Indiana University telecommunications Professor and author of “Media Work.” Deuze explores the brave and sometimes bizarre new world of modern media where all the world’s a stage and each of us an actor, autobiographer, and avatar. Deuze talks about the way media has transformed concepts of identity, community and privacy. He also explores the precariousness of labor in a media age, where workers often live project to project and how this model of labor is now being applied to other industries such as manufacturing. Deuze asserts that from Facebook to blogs to Twitter, media allows humans to do what we have been hardwired to do since the beginning of time: tell our stories, even if we are the only ones listening.
