Do you use social media more than the average?
15 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: addiction, social media
Buzz Aldrin punches Moon landing conspiracy theorist stalker after being harassed by him
15 Feb 2015 1 Comment
in economics of crime, economics of media and culture, health economics, law and economics, property rights Tags: Buzz Aldrin, conspiracy theorists, moon landing hoax, privacy, self-defence, stalking
HT: Liar_tuck
Useful advice for pet owners
15 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation Tags: warning labels
HT: https://twitter.com/KMartUK/status/540218954988679168/photo/1
Useful information for coffee drinkers
13 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, law and economics Tags: vexatious litigation, warning labels
HT: overlawyered.com
Prop 2’s Eventual Effect on California Egg Prices — Jayson Lusk
13 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation Tags: Animal welfare
An important notice from the London Fire Brigade about 50 Shades of Grey
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
Wacky warning labels finalists
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, law and economics
Photo of man on phone missing rare humpback whale sighting
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: fraying of culture
Public relations people earn 54% more than journalists & outnumber them nearly 5 to 1
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
The media market works: US media is slightly to the left of centre
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: demand for social insurance, gender wage gap, media bias
As discussed before, to survive in a competitive market, media outlets must serve that market as best they can.
The reader or viewer that is most likely to turn off or otherwise switch to another activity are women, often mothers. Women tend to be to the left than me because of their greater demand for social insurance.
To keep their most marginal viewers, media outlets pitch their stories slightly left of centre, aimed at women who are most likely to switch off if they are not seeing what they want to see.
Will robots take my job as a blogger?
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, technological progress Tags: blogging, creative destruction, mechanisation, skill biased technical change, technological unemployment
It will be a slow train coming before they invent an angry paranoid blogger with every possible political view, conspiracy theory, taste in movies and humour, passionate scepticism and distain for anti-intellectualism depending on which menu button you click.
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