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Because Internet
Our deep wells of enthusiasm for internet dialect quizzes give us a clue about why: talking in particular ways reinforces our networks, our sense of belonging and community.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has uttered that exact phrase every single day since 1993.
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
young internet people’s social savvy is also no guarantee of technological skill.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
To oversimplify, here’s where we ended up. The Internet really did bring new voices into a national discourse that, for too long, had been controlled by far too narrow a group. But it did not return our democratic culture and modes of thinking to pre-TV logocentrism. The brief renaissance of long blog arguments was short-lived (and, honestly, it wa... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
The true influence of Post Internet People on general internet socialization was both more subtle and more important than simply a shiny new social networking site. By joining the social internet after their parents were already there, they faced an especially dire version of “context collapse.” This is danah boyd’s term for when people from all yo
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