Post-Media Subjectivation

If potentially any connected person can be an author/podcaster/webcaster, if everyone has a media extension to communicate, that means we have entered a post-media age, where mass media are no longer the necessary intermediary.

Important questions are: What does that do to our sense of self? What are the subjectivation processes that gave rise, and are engendered by the new post-media environment?

A special issue of the French-language journal Multitude was dedicated to this topic, which is presented here at http://multitudes.samizdat.net/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=612

I particularly recommend the following essay, an extended meditation on the crisis of trust affecting institutional media, and the epistemological characteristics of the new situation:

Jean-Louis Weissberg. « La crise fiduciaire des medias de masse. Je crois parce que j’experimente. » Multitudes 21, http://multitudes.samizdat.net/article.php3?id_article=1978.