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Media Literacy

Editorial in the age of information overload and information overlords.

In the age of mass media, there was power in the role of the editors as the gatekeepers of information and the arbiters of salience, taste, and social propriety. The digital age has democratized access to the tools of production, but it has also centralized resources, wealth, and power in large corporate monopolies.