Category: Media-News
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Against stupidity: A lost cause [On the irrationality of terror for a 'nuclear' war]
Harmonia Philosophica has for a long time fought against stupidity at all levels. The recent cries of terror from scientists regarding the gruesome effects of a nuclear war are yet another example of sheer stupidity which once more needs to be dealt with if we want to keep our sanity within this insane world. Due…
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Short answers to important questions
Hawking said that there is no God. (1) Should we care? The answer: No. Hawking was a good (not even the best) scientist in his specific field (and there are MANY fields in science). But he is not a philosopher. He actually believed that philosophy is dead. And surely he is not a good theologian.…
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Computers. The new religion. (and the new journalists) [OR: Who needs journalists?]
An experiment recently conducted by LMU media researchers suggests that readers like to read texts generated by computers, especially when they are unaware that what they are reading was assembled on the basis of an algorithm. In the study, 986 subjects were asked to read and evaluate online news stories. Articles which the participants believed…
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Human vs. Robot journalists, writing, soul...
What is The Future of Journalism? Data reporting? Drones? Computer-generated news, like the algorithms are already breaking news on today's California earthquake? Case for the latter: Compare the first few paragraphs from two news stories about a sports game, re-published in a recent study. Even with an unexceptional outing for Philip Rivers, the Chargers handled…
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Lunar robot. Wrong funerals. What is "News"?
It seems that the Chinese lunar robot proclaimed "dead" recently, is not dead after all... (1, 2) But who declared it dead in the first place? How do the people who make the news learn about the... news? Journalists have stopped bothering to go at the source of the events to learn about the events. They…
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