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Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Never before in history have so many people been under the gaze of so many strangers. Humans evolved in small groups, defined by kinship: those we knew, knew us. And our imaginative capabilities allowed us to know strangers—kings and queens, heroes of legend, gods above—all manner of at least partly mythic personalities to whom we may have felt as ... See more
Chris Hayes • On the Internet, We’re Always Famous
or her relationship to the fiction and reconstructing its meanings according to more immediate interests.
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
The difference between Blockbuster and Netflix was this: Blockbuster punished customers for being forgetful; Netflix rewarded them for being mindless.
Will Tavlin • Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
Algorithmic taste, in Peter’s case as a consumer, was both boring and alienating. On the creator side, by contrast, ubiquity can be profitable.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The television commercial is not at all about the character of products to be consumed. It is about the character of the consumers of products.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
5. Data Is Central to Customer ValueNetflix’s core product value, it turns out, is content licensing and content production. Recently, they have even dropped the long tail of titles they used to match you to. The data network effect they thought they had turned out to be peripheral to the real value of the product.
NFX • What Makes Data Valuable: The Truth About Data Network Effects
ready-made characters of popular culture provide a shared set of references for discussing common experiences and feelings with others with whom one may never have enjoyed face-to-face contact.