>You can't understand November's election — or America itself — without reckoning with how our media attention has shattered into a bunch of misshapen pieces. >Think of it as the shards of glass phenomenon. Not long ago, we all saw news and information through a few common windows — TV, newspapers, cable. Now we find it in scattered chunks that match our age, habits, politics and passions. >Why it matters: Traditional media, at least as a center of dominant power, is dead. Social media, as its replacement for news in the internet era, is declining in dominance. >What comes next: America is splintering into more than a dozen news bubbles based on ideology, wealth, jobs, age and location. . . . [Archive](https://archive.today/OJgNw)