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Young women use the linguistic features that they do, not as mindless affectations, but as power tools for establishing and strengthening relationships.
Amanda Montell • Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
She came up with a theory called gender performativity, which essentially says that gender isn’t something you are, it’s something you do.
Amanda Montell • Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
I’m extremely wary of the cult of contemporary self-making, and the fact that it’s become an expected part of life in the attention economy for middle-class workers.
From the college essay – the first time many of us are required to tell a selling story of ourselves in the service of social capital – to the dating website to Twitter or Instagram, we... See more
From the college essay – the first time many of us are required to tell a selling story of ourselves in the service of social capital – to the dating website to Twitter or Instagram, we... See more
Tara Isabella Burton • Self-Made ft. Tara Isabella Burton: The History & Future of Self Curation
Curators Are the New Creators. The Business Model of Good Taste | by Gaby Goldberg | Medium
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To me, online content consumption seems to exist on a pendulum of sorts: we love content to the extreme — Unbundle!! Give us more! — until we are overwhelmed with choice and analysis — It’s too much!! Bundle it back up again! — and swing to the opposite side. In the end, we always end up somewhere in the middle… but it’s a lot of swinging back and ... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators Are the New Creators
Ideas from George Mack:
1. Subprime audience - A creator optimising for size of audience and ending up with a junk audience. They end up producing content they themselves wouldn’t consume.
2. The forgetting paradox - Wordle outperformed every headline in society's consciousness for 2022. All the news everyone was worried outlasted by a novelty game..
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