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Cultural Transmission In the Internet Age
- Through this lens, our transition to the metaverse becomes a cultural shift as a consequence of technology and connectedness, rather than the result of some specific technological innovation that then begets a cultural shift.
from Spheres of Self: Performativity and Parasociality in the Metaverse by Koji
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- That we straddle a pivotal moment in history being old enough to remember a time before the internet but also native enough to online culture to recognise and appreciate the whole new world of human interaction that the internet is only just beginning to open up. Many of us spent much of our late adolescence and early adulthood socialising online a... See more
from Of Pods, Squads, Crews & Gangs: Small Group Experiments In Radical Belonging by Joe Lightfoot
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- Today it feels like we’re living through another important cultural shift—the decline of Twitter—and a new generation of networks is experimenting with new structures to try and capitalize on it. If we want to understand what’s next, it helps to ask: what caused the culture shift? What new structures would be better? And what will it feel like to u... See more
from Twitter Is Fragmenting by Nathan Baschez
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