Media convergence can constitute reality rather than merely representing it.

Evidence

DeLillo’s airborne toxic event is also an airborne mediated event: television, supermarket tabloids, radio chatter, and academic discourse on Hitler studies converge to constitute reality itself. The Gladney family lives inside what Baudrillard would call hyperreality, where “the most photographed barn in America” exists primarily as photograph. The novel anticipates platform-era questions about secondary virality and the disappearance of unmediated experience. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 19

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Baudrillard’s hyperreality and to the book’s own earlier thread on mediated experience and reality construction. — connects to: Fragmented classes need media to construct a coherent image of the social whole.; Communication constitutes reality rather than merely representing it — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 382; News cannot picture reality but only signal that something is happening — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 358 (+14 more)

Related

• Media hyperrealisation enables rather than cancels real mass deaths (similarity 0.81)
• Media act as a genetic code mutating the real into the hyperreal. (similarity 0.81)
• Mass media now define the ordinary sense of being alive. (similarity 0.80)
• The medium itself now produces truth rather than reflecting it. (similarity 0.80)
• Media presence itself becomes the model that precedes and drains meaning from events (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Communication constitutes reality rather than merely representing it #expands (0.85) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 382
• Media framing constructs the reality audiences accept about Islam. #exemplifies (0.60) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 497
• Media shapes public knowledge by defining events and scenarios people cannot access directly #expands (0.50)
• News cannot picture reality but only signal that something is happening #qualifies (0.40) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 358