Communication

The old-new epistemology of digital journalism: how algorithms and filter bubbles are (re)creating modern metanarratives

L. Serafini

This research by Luca Serafini delves into the fascinating interplay between algorithms and modern narratives in online journalism, challenging the view of it as merely postmodern. Explore how this 'information platformization' redefines the essence of journalism in today's digital age.

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Abstract

This article challenges the common view of online journalism as a postmodern phenomenon characterized by subjectivity and relativism. It argues that algorithms and filter bubbles are creating a resurgence of modern metanarratives, where subjective narratives are perceived as absolute truths within their respective information bubbles. This "information platformization" process leads to a new definition of online journalism as a subjective fulfillment of modernism's foundational principles, rather than a postmodern departure.

Publisher

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Published On

Jul 10, 2023

Authors

Luca Serafini

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