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Is Communication Really a Food?
Sandra Veinberg, Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration (RISEBA) & Liepāja University / Latvia
ABSTRACT
‘Everything we consume acts either to heal us or to poison us,’ states Buddhist
researcher Thich Nhat Hanh (Hanh, 2013). The flow of information from the
media is part of the food or nutrition for people that can make us happy, angry,
sad or cursed. So far, we have never analysed the media flow from this point
of view. The fact that the media often spreads ‘toxic information’ and does
not provide enough information ‘that makes us feel good’ is quite a common
phenomenon in various surveys of media audiences.
It looks raw and primitive, but is actually true. Our old logic in regard to information in the media had always relied on the literacy of the written word and the belief that ‘media
intellectuality’ is the ability to make a connection from the facts that the media
gives us. If the media audience were not able to understand the message
it was getting from the media, we would tend to complain of that audience’s
lack of education or its level of stupidity. Until now, we have never conducted
an analysis of the biological effect on the human body that is created by one’s
communication with media information. It is very likely that the consumption
of media information affects our media habits in the same way that food affects
our appetites and satiety.
Key words: communication, media audience, communicating, the literacy
Is Communication Really Food? Sandra Veinberg, page143-159
Epiphany Special Issue
Epiphany: Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, (2015) (Special Issue)
Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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Volume 8
Number 2
2015
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