* How revolutions in media technology from the printing press to Facebook have destabilized political systems
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* Why Abraham Lincoln probably never would have won the presidency in the TV era * The surprising dangers of “Sesame Street” * How the mediums through which we communicate - TV, social media, print news - shape us even more deeply than the content we absorb from them * Why mid-century media theorists like Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman are essential for understanding our current political moment So I invited Illing on the show to talk about his new book alongside some of his other work. Illing’s career, in many ways, represents the intersection of these two worlds: He’s trained as a political theorist but eventually switched careers to become a journalist he’s currently the interviews writer at Vox, where he hosts the podcast “Vox Conversations” and often writes about the nexus of media and politics. Radio and TV and Twitter and TikTok each profoundly shape the way we think, the qualities we look for in our politicians, the way we absorb news, the kind of political discourse we engage in and so much more. “We see this time and again,” Gershberg and Illing write, “media continually evolve faster than politics, resulting in recurring patterns of democratic instability.”įor that reason, Gershberg and Illing refer to media ecology - a field dedicated to studying the complex interplay between media, humans and their broader social environments - as “the master political science.” You can’t understand a society’s politics without understanding the mediums through which its people communicate.
Historically, this paradox becomes particularly profound during transitions between different communication technologies.
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“At the very heart of democracy is a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected free societies from ancient Greece to contemporary America,” write Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing in their new book, “The Paradox of Democracy.” In order to live up to its name, democracy must be open to free communication and expression yet that very feature opens democracies up to the forces of chaos, fragmentation and demagoguery that undermine them.
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