It’s amazing how many times in the past year I’ve used the phrase “new normal“. Whether it’s managing intense change resulting from an “acceleration of the acceleration”, as David Taras author of Digital Mosaic, Media, Power and Identity in Canada puts it, or feeling unsurprised by the latest headlines following a twitterfest, “normal” feels like it’s in a state of perpetual redefinition. Some things deserve to be normalized, and media’s influence (particularly in digital spaces) is helping that to happen. It’s also becoming clear, however, that there are a great many aspects of our society that are becoming normalized in concerning ways. Are we living out the myth of the frog and boiling water? Continue reading “The “new normal”, media shock and…frogs”