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A recurring theme as technology has changed celebrity is that content output goes up and production value goes down. The production value of a Kardashian social media post is orders of magnitude lower than the production value of an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Rex Woodbury • The Business of Fame: 1920-2020
His point is that Brud can create digital characters who are infinitely more scalable and globally appealing. A digital celebrity could theoretically produce unlimited content for unlimited languages and cultures: she could produce a dozen Instagram photos, release a feature-length film, and give six interviews—all in a single day.
Rex Woodbury • The Business of Fame: 1920-2020
Psychological ground for the need for curation:"- Zuckerberg’s Law, or the tendency to share more and more on social media over time -Dunbar’s number, or the average number of stable social relationships one can maintain at a given time (it’s around 150)-Zipf’s Law, which describes how in any system of resources there are a small number of items of... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators Are the New Creators
The issue now and during the next decade is access to the center of gravity of the technocracy, the leading universities that not only teach subjects but train you in the social rituals that allow you to belong to the technocracy. Those universities are increasingly closed to those who didn’t descend from this group.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Robert D. Putnam.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
Michelle Rose Josephmichellerosejoseph.substack.com