Tag: Social Media
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Booksmaxxing: how reading became sexy | Books | The Guardian
This is beginning to sound a trifle insane. That’s booksmaxxing! Isn’t this all coming at a time when book reading is actually in decline? Overall, yes. Since 2003 the number of Americans reading for pleasure has dropped by 40%. So booksmaxxing is a niche trend cocooned within a much larger trend that’s heading in the…
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‘You can be made a laughing stock to millions’: can gen Z escape the fear of being cringe? | Young people | The Guardian
Humans aren’t psychologically evolved to be subject to the judgment of so many others. “Biologically or culturally, we’re adapted to relatively small group living,” says Giner-Sorolla. “We’re not adapted to live where millions of eyes are on us.” When we lived in smaller, entirely offline communities, we could adapt to fit in with those around…
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We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World – On my Om
The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury…
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Being Fed Content
The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed. We’re all farm…
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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…