Keely Adler

“Small” in this case does not mean a lack of ambition; it denotes a lack of concentration – a tendency towards pluralism, and an embrace of many possible, parallel realities and futures that are imagined within limits.

Like the Depp-Heard coverage, the forces that Sacasas describes can be deeply cynical and destructive. They’re also almost always exhausting for those of us consuming them.

With more of the decision making process taking place before the consumer ever enters the store (Google Research finds 83% of US shoppers who visited a store say they used online search before they went in), retailers should also be working to ensure that the online brand discovery experience is equally as exciting as immersive physical ones.

Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like.

The tendency to craft fictional realms is a natural human instinct, argues media scholar Mark Wolf in Building Imaginary Worlds (2012), a comprehensive study on constructed worlds. Our fascination begins in childhood. Youthful proclivities for fairy tales (“Once upon a time, in a land far, far away”) and the imaginary “[do] not change over time,”... See more

The very fact that we are so concerned over a change in ownership of Twitter, and the impact that that may have on the digital public sphere, highlights the complete lack of regulatory oversight and the lack of any set of ethical norms that have been established for social media.