Tag: Social Media
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Velocity Is the New Authority – Om Malik
Authority used to be the organizing principle of information, and thus the media. You earned attention by being right, by being first in discovery, or by being big enough to be the default. That world is gone. The new and current organizing principle of information is velocity. What looks like cultural choice is often the echo of infrastructure. The meme has become the metastory, the layer where meaning is…
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How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’? | Technology | The Guardian
Just as petroleum frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergents into the ground to force a little monetisable black gold to the surface, human frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergent into our faces (in the form of endless streams of addictive slop and maximally disruptive user-generated content), to force a slurry of human attention to the surface, where…
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Le business des parents influenceurs : « Certains vont jusqu’à sciemment faire étalage d’humiliations ou de maltraitances »
Depuis la révolution industrielle, une vision du monde s’est imposée : la famille, associée à la générosité et à l’absence de calcul, et l’économique, lié alors à la recherche du profit et à la rationalité, sont perçus alors comme des sphères à tenir séparées. Elles deviennent l’une pour l’autre ce que la sociologue américaine Viviana Zelizer qualifie…