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The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.

‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It (Published 2017)

“The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like this to mean everyone is asking for car crashes, so it tries to supply them.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-mediu

The late Derrick Bell, the first tenured African American professor at Harvard Law School, is often regarded as the progenitor of what we generally call critical race Theory, having derived the name by inserting race into his area of specialty: critical legal theory.

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Social media algorithms identify our politics and then shepherd us into a hermetically sealed bubble, framing our worldview through a window of rage and extremism.

Scott Galloway • No Mercy / No Malice

This chapter explores the visceral and performative dimensions of activist networking through a comparative ethnographic analysis of anti-corporate globalization mobilizations in Prague and Barcelona.

Jeffrey S. Juris • Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization (Experimental Futures)

- "the concrete practices of the tech industry now structure identity and individuality in ways that support its own hegemony. While it presents endless avenues for expression, it sees us as wholly reducible to market logic, where we are real to the degree that our consumption habits are rational. This vision of selfhood promotes uniformity and bou... See more

Emma Stamm • Who Can It Be Now — Real Life

Aggregation Theory

Ben Thompson stratechery.com

algorithmic search,

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

Alex Karp Has Money and Power. So What Does He Want?

Maureen Dowd nytimes.com