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A “gossip trap” is when your whole world doesn’t exceed Dunbar’s number and to organize your society you are forced to discuss mostly people. It is Mean Girls (and mean boys), but forever. And yes, gossip can act as a leveling mechanism and social power has a bunch of positives—it’s the stuff of life, really. But it’s a terrible way to organize
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danah boyd • Dear Alt-Twitter Designers: It’s about the network!
danah boyd • Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media
Laws, taskforces, and PSAs are all artifacts that represent an ambivalent sort of concretization of the fears that swarm around children's online sociality.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Joan Donovan • Why social media can’t keep moderating content in the shadows
Stans have little regard for rules or terms of service. They manipulate the timeline in good fun, generally, and they sometimes do it with dubious methods that are traditions of darker online spaces. Their prodigious talent for amplification is not always paired with an interest in the truth, which can often backfire, and they’ve learned this the
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