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the past, organizations like newspapers, radio stations, and established political parties acted as gatekeepers, deciding who was heard in the public sphere. Social media undermined the power of these gatekeepers, leading to a more open but also more anarchical public conversation.

Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

While the notional shift from programming to curation can feel academic, it represents a crucial step in the democratization of media. Through thousands of individual curators, each of us will be able to escape the tyranny of averages and the limitations of algorithmic recommendations, as well as benefit from the ability to become tastemakers ourse... See more

Tal Shachar • REDEF ORIGINAL: Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry

André Chaperon

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The information balance of power has changed, of course. A generation ago, the public could exist only as a passive audience. Information was dispensed on the industrial model: top down and one to many. That was the great age of the daily newspaper and famous anchormen on the model of Walter Cronkite. The advent of digital platforms, in a sense, cr

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Browse versus search is a radical increase in the trust we put in link infrastructure, and in the degree of power derived from that link structure.

Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags

"Curators are the new creators, and as consumers, we’re going to be willing to pay someone with good taste to help us sort through the ever-growing mass of information at our fingertips."

Gaby Goldberg • Curators Are the New Creators

"Each individual categorization scheme is worth less than a professional categorization scheme. But there are many, many more of them." If you find a way to make it valuable to individuals to tag their stuff, you'll generate a lot more data about any given object than if you pay a professional to tag it once and only once. And if you can find any w... See more

Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags

The learning lesson for us all in these debates is this: the writer of digital code establishes the rules of user access to information.

John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)

As the size of your network grows, your small-group pattern, where everyone connected to everyone, would first become impractical, then unbuildable. Let the small groups connect tightly, and then you connect the groups. But you can't really connect groups - you connect people within groups. Instead of one loose group of 25, you have 5 tight groups ... See more

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Yuval Noah Harari • Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Tal Shachar • REDEF ORIGINAL: Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry

André Chaperon

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags

Gaby Goldberg • Curators Are the New Creators

Clay Shirky • Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags

John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)

Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations