Media storm

The term media thunderstorm appears in contemporary media theories and refers to the effect of the strong presence of the mass media in everyday social life.

The word is based on Ernst Jünger's powerful metaphor of the steel storm . It was shaped in particular by the media theorists Friedrich Kittler , Norbert W. Bolz , and Paul Virilio , who in these contexts above all pointed to the proximity of the media and the military .

See also

• Shitstorm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. u. a. Bolz, Norbert W., At the end of the Gutenberg galaxy, p. 125: "In their horizon, all technologies are weapon capable"