An aggregated reading list of the best, in-depth thinking from around the web on the impact of technology and social media, curated by Nathan Jurgenson and Cyborgology.
“with Silicon Valley at the helm, our life will become one long California highway”
“Is a tweet labor? Is a Facebook post labor?”
“we might someday wonder why our childhood memories are held under DRM”
“TED talks just to keep from looking at the cops”
“If we want to protect privacy, we should be more clear about why it is important”
“a trend emerged where visual anonymity led to less disclosiveness”
“Is documentary vision a new way of dreaming? Does it enmesh the “virtual” with the “physical”?”
“Novels about robots are still novels. Get over it“
“I’d rather be a cyborg than a romantic”
“we need to believe in a “second self” as a fantasy”
“Timeline creates an infographic of our lives”
“We don’t like cultural capital to be appropriated without authenticity”
“there is no good pre-internet metaphor for what it’s trying to do”