In the networked culture, it’s worth remembering: images reveal what happened, but don’t necessarily explain it.
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A woman who thinks no one is watching undresses, changes clothes, transforms herself. A surveillance camera captures the moment.
Malcolm Gladwell, popular and controversial New Yorker writer and A-list business guru, confesses in a podcast from Longform: “I am everything I once despised.”
The dismantling of the news industry’s landmark architecture occurs throughout the U.S. There is more to this than nostalgia for grand buildings and the indignity of decline. It’s personal.
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Unlike typical tech reporting, which dutifully regurgitates the scripted “news” provided by tech companies, The Verge arranged a digital canvas with photos and tweets to show how one of the world’s most influential tech companies views itself and tells its story. An utterly trivial event, staged by a corporate titan in celebration of itself, becomes an instant cultural artifact.
A new kind of war and a new kind of news just unfolded on Twitter. It’s up to us to find the common ground of truth.
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The introduction I wrote for our seminal We Media report is soon to be part of the educational lexicon in France. Here’s what I wrote in 2003: “There are three ways to look at how society is informed. The first is that people are gullible and will read, listen to, or watch just about anything. […]
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Jeff Gomez (@Jeff_Gomez), a multimedia producer and CEO of Starlight Runner Entertainment, makes the case for art in a crazy, scary world.
One of the battles for our computing hearts and minds isn’t over mobile or networked anything. It’s over something so prosaic, so ordinary, so retro, it feels like a faded clipping from a family scrapbook: the offline world.
For the first time since the web itself was created, business, markets, governments and society as a whole are aligning around the networked culture.