The New American Dream Is Sponsored by Meta: ANA VIKTORIA DZINIC
In a luxury media landscape, the traditional roles of creator, curator, and consumer are being redefined. Artists are not just creators but are now stewards of cultural communities, leveraging their individual legitimacy to direct communal conversations and brands. In the Age of Average, where mediocre content is abundant, creators become artisans ... See more
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the current state of art, where artists must skillfully package themselves as products for buyers to consume.
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
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The American Dream is Going Digital
The American Dream is Going Digital: The Land of Opportunity is the Internet This tweet went viral. As one might expect, the responses ranged from despair over a lost generation of youth, to proclamations that China would inevitably overtake the West as the leading superpower. Some ascribed ...
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That labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art. Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human — ... See more
Rebecca Jennings • Everybody Has to Self-Promote Now. Nobody Wants To.
It seems to combine Tumblr-style tribal niches with the brevity and intimacy of Instagram stories and the scalability of YouTube, where mainstream fame is most possible.
Kyle Chayka • Essay: How do you describe TikTok?
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If the new American Dream is defined by “creative expression, online influence and extreme optionality” over linear moves up the corporate ladder, then LinkedIn is enough to make any Millennial or Gen Z jobseeker cringe.
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