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Teens are hacking Instagram into a modern-day eBay
Teen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mireille-silcoffnytimes.comBecause “everything is for sale” on social media, writes media scholar Zoe Hurley, it is assumed that “everything and everyone participating in the social media landscape is doing so for commercial gain. Projecting a fantasy or giving a performance of ‘authentic’ life is the important thing as authenticity itself becomes commodified.”70
David A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
An aggregator like Facebook or Airbnb brings all the relevant goods, services, or information that a consumer might seek into one place, and it gathers all the consumers there, too. Netflix is a one-stop shop for film and television. YouTube is a one-stop shop for user-generated video. Uber is a one-stop shop for car rides. These aggregators amass ... See more
Hamish McKenzie • The Age of the Sovereign Creator
TikTok, Depop, and Instagram have created a new kind of fashion influencer: the vintage micro-curator. Their power lies not in designing clothes, but in storytelling — spinning historical context, designer lore, and aesthetic moodboards into content gold. This type of content is coming along leaps and bounds, and there’s real value in this narrativ... See more
It was time to follow the genius of the youthful and, with them, to kill conformity forever by making hip or cool the powerful new engine of consumption.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Perhaps the demise of traditional retail and media can be explained by the Internet offering better alternatives for curating your own community of like-minded people/products and removing most of the friction around connecting.