internet culture

Tag: internet culture

13 posts
Hope has a PR problem.
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yuepisodes

Hope has a PR problem.

So, I have a Pinterest board called “Home.”

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Aug 4
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The Cyber Harvest 0.01: Kristen Stewart Thinks Hollywood Is Stuck in ‘Capitalist Hell’
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Plush Diagnosis

The Cyber Harvest 0.01: Kristen Stewart Thinks Hollywood Is Stuck in ‘Capitalist Hell’

A analysis of The New York Times podcast, The Interview, with actress and director Kristen Stewart. Hosted by David Marchese. This item is featured in the The Cyber Harvest 0.01 series I started in my take of personal curriculum and media gardens. Check out my site for more on this.

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Aug 2
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The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators
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The Internet Needs More Cross-Pollinators

So, my silly little fanfic project blew up like crazy and received some really negative feedback. And I think I understand why. Exploring the concept of boundary spanning and cross-pollination in online communities. Drawing on organizational theory and the work of Michael Tushman. We need people who move between different online subcultures to seed ideas and build bridges.

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Jun 2
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Memes, Metal Gear Solid, and You
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Memes, Metal Gear Solid, and You

A history of the word 'meme'—from Richard Dawkins coining it in *The Selfish Gene* in 1976 to Advice Dog and the death of shared internet monoculture—and what happens when you take memetics seriously as a theory of culture. Metal Gear Rising's Monsoon delivers the most honest account of how memes shape who we become. The lyric essay resists this process by design.

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Apr 17
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The Beebz Buzz

Enjoy Art

The most important thing about art is enjoying yourself doing it, no matter if its "good" or not.

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Apr 13
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Grandes Publicações da Diana

Nossa Maravilhosa Macroesfera

O projeto da Roda dos Seis Reinos em silício e cobre.

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Mar 25
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The Narrative Merchant

How Powerful Narratives Shape Our Reality Using Polarizing Triggers. Should You Fight Back?

Content was once king. Now distribution and audience rule. People with the biggest audience are now incentivized to distribute their narrative to anyone willing to buy it.

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Feb 7
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Shaking The Wasp’s Nest

Looking back at Gamergate, a flash point in internet history, and what it has to tell us about our current moment.

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Mar 11 '25
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Let The Internet Be Grimy

Meta’s take on mimicking Twitter feels like it was built for brand safety first, and you don’t get fulfilling internet experiences when you build for brand safety first.

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Jul 8 '23
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The Next Chapter

Online culture sure feels like it’s in a transition phase, doesn’t it? In an attempt to understand what we learned this week, let’s compare it to some prior internet-era shifts.

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Apr 22 '23
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The Beebz Buzz

[Outdated] Thoughts on the Art Commission Economy in Furry Spaces

Originally written in 2021 as an observation in commission trends in furry and anime communities.

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Aug 31 '21
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No More Eternal Septembers

For decades, technical users looking down on the less knowledgeable have set the stage for a lot of bad online discourse. Can those users break the chain?

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Oct 13 '20
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Thanks, Craig

Hitting its 25th anniversary this month, Craigslist remains a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive.

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Feb 22 '20
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