The magic of the internet is that it lets us build whole new societies on top of the existing one. These new, internet-led societies have repeatedly shown the power to evolve, push, and even overtake the physical society that created them (for good and for ill).
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Carly speaks from her background in magazines to explain that adding a Discord channel to the NEW MODELS structure was important because “editors don’t make magazines, they make audiences. And a magazine or a podcast alone is no longer the way to do that. It has to be something more cybernetic.” She paraphrases theories from K Allado McDowell’s... See more
“You have to be embedded in the culture that you’re critiquing, in order to mirror the techno-dystopic landscape that we live in“ – Siâna-Leann Douglas
And yet brands and influencers alike still cling to follower count because the truth of the matter - the increasing randomness of reach - is just too hard to accept.