Docking the Long Tail of Culture

How mass culture has scored a decisive victory in the age of the Internet

In the past, the difficulty of acquiring long-tail content suggested that a person had many underlying status assets, such as intelligence, curiosity, and deep knowledge. When anyone can find anything obscure on the Internet within minutes, acquisition alone reveals no virtues or skills....

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Docking the Long Tail of Culture

Understanding Media in Dark Times

The extensions of men and women

The authoritarian threat in the United States and its resistance are actively being constituted through media, and the whole world is not only watching: it is actively participating. The Presidency of Donald Trump is not imaginable without Twitter. But also Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and, this week, the nation wide walk ...
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Understanding Media in Dark Times