Citizens Quote by Malcolm Turnbull

Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That…

— Lester Holt

New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led…

— Ory Okolloh

The idea of changing and fixing the problem of how news is presented on the Internet has been recognized for a long time.

— Ezra Klein

Citizens have long been easily influenced by the opinions of others and sought social proof, but social media have amplified the phenomena to unprecedented…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

At their best, new media are chaotic. The new technologies disrupt political pomp and glamour and engage people in an unpolished and unpredictable give-and-take.…

— Zephyr Teachout

“Modern electronic mass media had been a defining piece of the twentieth-century experience that served an important democratic function—presenting Americans with a shared set…

— Kurt Andersen

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

— Barack Obama

“For various ideological reasons, the business world, the entertainment industry, and most users of the World Wide Web have shown little interest in a…

— Jay David Bolter

I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has…

— Tony Abbott

I question the premise that digital is necessarily the enemy of traditional media. In many ways, it presents us with enormous opportunities.

— Scott McDonald

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have…

— Lawrence M. Krauss