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The whole idea of social networks was networking : building or deepening relationships, mostly with people you knew. How and why that deepening happened was largely left to the users to decide.
Ian Bogost • The Age of Social Media Is Ending
Hyperconnectivity in the cultural realm promises abundance, decommodification and democratization. Everyone has at their fingertips an infinitely rich and varieduniverse of cultural products. New cultural forms and innovative practices have proliferated. Much digital culture is freely shared rather than bought and sold. And ever-expanding circles
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Towards Recommender System Optimization: Our Data Tool for Algorithmic Optimization on Spotify [Part 1]
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Social media showed that everyone has the potential to reach a massive audience at low cost and high gain—and that potential gave many people the impression that they deserve such an audience.
Ian Bogost • The Age of Social Media Is Ending
This was what personal style was to me in 2008: a cipher for something much broader, a glimpse into the lives of others.
Dirt • Dirt | Substack
Part of the reason social media has felt even more “flattening” to one’s identity
Is because social media has shown its benefit towards economic mobility
You can’t sell 50 things. You gotta sell 1, really well. And when that “widget” is the self -> you gotta package it neatly
Reggie Jamestwitter.com