MK

For most, the pleasures of digital cultural consumption are uncoupled from the exertions of curatorship. Today’s digital consumers are no longer being fed a limited diet of standardized cultural products, but they are still being fed. Consumption may be personalized, but it would be a stretch, in most cases, to call it self-directed — and it is

It’s only on platforms where controversy and drama are prioritized for driving engagement where we’re rewarded for despising each other.

When we dress to be photographed, we increasingly dress to be distributed as an image, and thus transformed into a kind of ad.

Twitter was for talking to everyone —which is perhaps one of the reasons journalists have flocked to it.

It’s become something of a sport to unearth these sorts of replies, the ones where strangers make willfully decontextualized moral judgments on other people’s lives. We give these people and these kinds of conversations names: “chronically online” or “terminally online,” implying that too much exposure to too many people’s weird ideas makes us all

For one, social-media operators discovered that the more emotionally charged the content, the better it spread across its users’ networks.