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In Praise of Gatekeeping
In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The tyranny of the contextualizer online is their constant and immovable presence between the reader and the text, the listener and the music, the viewer and the film. We now reach for context before engaging with the content. When my first interaction with a song is through TikTok reactions, I no longer encounter the work as it is, on my own. It c... See more
“You can’t second-guess your own taste for what someone else is going to like. It won’t be good. We’re not smart enough to know what someone else will like. To make something and say, ‘well, I don’t really like it but I think this group of people will like it’, I think [that approach] is a bad way to play the game of music or art.
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Expanding Our Cultural Reference Points
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The old world was full of gatekeepers to impress.