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Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)

This is too many things. The chances of finding someone prepared to chat about something mutual (like, baseball) are small. When we stop chatting round the water cooler (and its social media equivalents), our world gets less clear, less organized, less cooperative, and less mutual. This threatens the American “we.”

Grant McCracken • The Gravity Well Effect

For Kate Eichhorn, a media historian and a professor at the New School, content is digital material that “may circulate solely for the purpose of circulating”

Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines

Erica Reisman

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Nineteen twenty-three was one of Broadway’s brightest years. John Barrymore played Hamlet just a few blocks away from where his sister Ethel was appearing in Romeo and Juliet. Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author also opened. Most critics cited Galsworthy’s Loyalties as the best play of the season.

A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

Kelly’s vision depends on an evolution of the Internet in which the vast tangle of possible one-on-one connections partition into countless small cliques—each one a fandom or a mini community revelling in the discovery of others who share their quirks. Instead, the social-media giants effectively rerouted these connections through a small number of... See more

Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class

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George W. S. Trow newyorker.com

“The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now being done by laundry detergent commercials and comic strip characters.”

— Barthes