Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-4242472-20150504003042

I know there have been blogs in the past asking what various nations TV and internet were like but lately I have been wondering. Mass media in fiction feels strangely underplayed considering its potential to twist stories and challenge perceptions of characters. There have been attempts at showing multimedia such as Andromeda News 20 and the Drodo Imperial News Network. Apart from these two, the odd state announcement, and Hachi's stash of comics, video games and porn, mass media seems to get only passing references.

I've also had this question hanging over my head for a long time of "how many people actually know what a Xhodocto is?" due to many factors that would hide the information like sensetivity cover-up but more importantly the threat of the potential mass panic that could be caused by "godbeings are real and are trying to kill us all". I've mentioned several times that Imperial media pretends Moxix's plague of undeath was nanotech-based.

Aeoneonatrix has also asked before if its worth setting up a pan-gigaquadrantic internet thing to unite all the various interstellar networks. I'm not suggesting we give all our characters Spacebook accounts, that might stretch into the silly for some but everyone on the IRC keeps up to date with some spheres of interest.

One example of what could be done: The recent death of Laurene Maxime. In the Draconid Imperium she was mourned publicly in Angel's glade, complete with floating news cameras reporting the sombre event. other nations however - especially in the now more Libertarian France - are probaly treating it like the best news ever and maybe sprinkling a bit of social media satire (the death of Margaret Thatcher sent "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" to reach no. 2 in the UK music charts, I'm not joking), so we have two sides of the same story; one for Laurene's supporters and one for her oponents.

But it's not just news as modern media allows for talk of films (Agent Nu once met a trio of popular Draconis actors and took a selfie with them), books, comics and video games. It might add some variety to "characters sitting around waiting" moments. 