Saved by Danielle Vermeer
Me, My Teen Self and Instagram
I feel like we all know that social media incentivizes us to craft consumable personas, to prioritize surface-level aesthetic experiences over privately-held and deeply-felt emotional ones, to run on envy and memetic desire and competitive self-optimization, to buy things in order to better sell ourselves. We know, too, these are pressures that fal... See more
Poser ethics
“A quiet shift is taking place”: On being a creative in the age of content
Matthew Prebegitsnicethat.com
Years later, the designers of Instagram asked: If we reinforce our users for taking selfies—if we give them hearts and likes—will they start to do it obsessively,