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The recent Substack plagiarism scandal perhaps epitomizes Illusions of Intellect, with the platform avoiding any response to hundreds of reported complaints, and 33K people continuing to subscribe to the admitted plagiarizer. As Julie Kwrites, perhaps even the concept of plagiarism is obsolete — from normalizing dupes to reposting Pinterest images... See more
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EdTech
Duccio Mondanelli • 2 cards
Some invest a lot of time and skill in crafting TikTok videos, but neither time nor skill is required. If TikTok “enables everyone to be a creator,” as its former mission statement proclaimed, this is because creative labor on the platform has been automated and deskilled.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
digital literacy
Sam Liebeskind • 1 card
The ‘Gen Z lab’ will employ 100 under-25s, in order to offer insight into the Gen Z consumer mindset
Edelman hires Gen Z cohort and appoints ‘ZEO’
The online battle of creativity vs originality.
Despite the fact that an unspeakable amount of content is made in a single minute on the internet, the consensus is clear: no one knows what originality means anymore. In fact, entire meme genres (boring ahh) have spawned from this sense of chronic underwhelm.... See more
instagram.comtech & culture
Allie Parker • 2 cards
