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How to Read the Internet
Forgetting is a feature, not a bug. It makes us feel like we’re moving forward through time, rather than standing still or running in circles. My grandmother and her ancestors knew this all too well. Artful forgetting, editing, and curation allowed them to craft narratives that helped their children understand the past and orient towards the future... See more
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
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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