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young internet people’s social savvy is also no guarantee of technological skill.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
At the end of the day, people use the internet to find what they want. A queer teenager feeling isolated in the Midwest can use it to find solace and community. But a bigot can also use it to find all the “research” and “facts” he needs to bolster an opinion that was never going to be changed anyway.
Jenny Odell • How to Internet
a feedback loop that can reward performative online personas more than genuine artistic vision.”
Amanda Montell • The Age of Magical Overthinking
The pressure to perform and present a curated version of our lives is unbearable and unrealistic, and engagement based services have greatly altered how a majority of people in today’s world perceive their own value and worth.
Carter Moore • Why I Deleted Instagram
Jed Brubaker and Janet Vertesi’s 2010 “Death and the Social Network,”
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
Youth and Participatory Politics Research Network,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
“networked individualism.”
Limor Shifman • Memes in Digital Culture (MIT Press Essential Knowledge)
Is it the Internet that increases the risk of kids or is it kids that are increasing their risk?
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet
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