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Hello.
I already asked about Christianity and young generation in the digital age. I have another question.
They say “a picture is worth a thousand words”… A visual image is worth more than several pages of text.
Printed medium is today probably good for 10-15% of young population. Mostly it’s multimedia. Even discussion forums like this one - textual communication - is becoming a thing for older generation. Simpler format such as Quora (question/answer) more favourable, but are also falling behind because also of partner program, readership dropping.
So we have completely new media where “video + audio + images + small amount of text” in different ratio of the medium components takes over. With instant or short-delay interaction, and with emotional Like/Dislike participation. Which is so much more suitable for humans, who have visual perception as their most dominant and leading source of understanding the world and being social primates.
The written and printed word skyrocketed as the main media and carrier of human knowledge and news since the Gutenberg Bible, but auditory way (written text is basically auditory information transferred via visual) is secondary to human beings. Transferring a medium via another medium is less than ideal method, as studies show requires unnatural longer links between brain fields, therefore more direct video/audio medium is much more efficient and has a stronger, more powerful impact.
Text is “frozen speech”, and classical Scriptures of all religions are thought by scholars to exist as oral traditions first, many of the books of the Bible included. No surprise good readers are also good talkers and writers. Speech-oriented folks.
So we think, because it’s the way it’s been for many many centuries with the written word as the #1 carrier of information, it’s the way it’s going to be always. Probably wrong.
If our civilization continues as it is developing now, I think there is a significant silent revolution going on. A new and extremely powerful social force is structuralizing: the Digital Creators. Some influencers (bloggers on social media platforms) are earning millions and are reaching more than any TV show for example. TV and radio are somewhere in the corner these days, fading away - just look at viewership/listener stats and advertising budgets allocated.
Religions, political parties, governments are to realize it and join this revolution or else they risk to lose influence on the young minds, which they are already losing badly. The Digital Creators is a big force of today and will be the leading power of the future.
Like they say about the journalists it’s the 4th estate, but it’s not so much anymore. The Digital Platforms mostly in the “video/audio/small amount of text” content is the real 4th estate today.
If religion misses this bandwagon, it’s done. It will be marginalized. Or a new religion will pop up, one completely re-invented and adapted for the Multimedia Age.
What do you think?
I already asked about Christianity and young generation in the digital age. I have another question.
They say “a picture is worth a thousand words”… A visual image is worth more than several pages of text.
Printed medium is today probably good for 10-15% of young population. Mostly it’s multimedia. Even discussion forums like this one - textual communication - is becoming a thing for older generation. Simpler format such as Quora (question/answer) more favourable, but are also falling behind because also of partner program, readership dropping.
So we have completely new media where “video + audio + images + small amount of text” in different ratio of the medium components takes over. With instant or short-delay interaction, and with emotional Like/Dislike participation. Which is so much more suitable for humans, who have visual perception as their most dominant and leading source of understanding the world and being social primates.
The written and printed word skyrocketed as the main media and carrier of human knowledge and news since the Gutenberg Bible, but auditory way (written text is basically auditory information transferred via visual) is secondary to human beings. Transferring a medium via another medium is less than ideal method, as studies show requires unnatural longer links between brain fields, therefore more direct video/audio medium is much more efficient and has a stronger, more powerful impact.
Text is “frozen speech”, and classical Scriptures of all religions are thought by scholars to exist as oral traditions first, many of the books of the Bible included. No surprise good readers are also good talkers and writers. Speech-oriented folks.
So we think, because it’s the way it’s been for many many centuries with the written word as the #1 carrier of information, it’s the way it’s going to be always. Probably wrong.
If our civilization continues as it is developing now, I think there is a significant silent revolution going on. A new and extremely powerful social force is structuralizing: the Digital Creators. Some influencers (bloggers on social media platforms) are earning millions and are reaching more than any TV show for example. TV and radio are somewhere in the corner these days, fading away - just look at viewership/listener stats and advertising budgets allocated.
Religions, political parties, governments are to realize it and join this revolution or else they risk to lose influence on the young minds, which they are already losing badly. The Digital Creators is a big force of today and will be the leading power of the future.
Like they say about the journalists it’s the 4th estate, but it’s not so much anymore. The Digital Platforms mostly in the “video/audio/small amount of text” content is the real 4th estate today.
If religion misses this bandwagon, it’s done. It will be marginalized. Or a new religion will pop up, one completely re-invented and adapted for the Multimedia Age.
What do you think?
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