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trolls reveal the thin and at times nonexistent line between trolling and sensationalist corporate media.
Whitney Phillips • This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture
Social media’s combination of global reach,
performance metrics, platform design, content
format, and algorithmic interference have changed
how creators make for others, and how others
perceive and interact with creators' work.
The results are an eternal presence, persistent
feedback, an unrealistic expectation of virality,
harmful social comparison, crea
... See moreMatt Klein • Page Not Found
Like so many technologies that came before, it seems to be here to stay; the question is not how to escape it but how to understand ourselves in its inescapable wake.
In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is intolerab... See more
In his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” Justin E. H. Smith, a professor of philosophy at the Université Paris Cité, argues that “the present situation is intolerab... See more
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
To accomplish this goal, the “proud extroversion” of the early Web soon gave way to a much more homogenized experience: hundred-and-forty-character text boxes, uniformly sized photos accompanied by short captions, Like buttons, retweet counts, and, ultimately, a shift away from chronological time lines and profile pages and toward statistically opt... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Once upon a time, the Internet was predicated on user-generated content. The hope was that ordinary people would take advantage of the Web’s low barrier for publishing to post great things, motivated simply by the joy of open communication. But then ad sales came into play.
That business model is still what most of the Internet relies on today. Rev... See more
That business model is still what most of the Internet relies on today. Rev... See more
Kyle Chayka • How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
the fact that online trolling is par for the mainstream cultural course.