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Better Ways to Imagine the Internet
Third, to respect memes is to respect the world around you, to see the value in the time you spend off the clock and in the people you were raised around. This latest authoritarian political project rests upon a fundamental disrespect for the world of regular people, and especially for the worlds of marginalized people. It relies on reducing you t
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Memes and trends are a record of how users experiment with the affordances of platforms, developing the vibe and brand of online spaces, steering and criticizing the direction of progress. When newspapers put stories about the internet in “tech” and “business” verticals rather than “politics” and “culture” verticals, it’s a symptom of how we’ve fai
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The kind of online engagement that matters isn’t just saying what you think, but creating the zones into which others may plug their thinking, find themselves welcomed and supported, and learn from one another.
Aidan Walker • Better Ways to Imagine the Internet
The internet, like a real-life public square, is a space and not just a linguistic construct. It’s about the vibe you structure, the businesses you run, and the social architecture you build.