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Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered through the question of how it will be received.
Eugene Healey • Gen Z and gen Alpha brought a raw, messy aesthetic to social media. Why does it feel as inauthentic as ever? | Eugene Healey
As the internet evolves, especially for us “very online people,” there’s a deepening sense that we are, together, becoming something beyond the scope of our original intentions. We are rapidly approaching a sum far greater and more mysterious than what we often perceive as its cold, mechanistic parts.
Dan Hunt • Internet as Practice
A 21st-Century Migrant’s Essentials: Food, Shelter, Smartphone (Published 2015)
Matthew Brunwassernytimes.com
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Internet Scale Businesses
joincolossus.comJay Matthews and
At the end of the day, people use the internet to find what they want. A queer teenager feeling isolated in the Midwest can use it to find solace and community. But a bigot can also use it to find all the “research” and “facts” he needs to bolster an opinion that was never going to be changed anyway.
Jenny Odell • How to Internet
Preserving the Internet’s “Freewheeling Spirit” - Internet Hall of Fame
Internet Hall Of Fameinternethalloffame.org