The Impact Of Technology Reading List: Identity & Media Consumption

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.

“On the whole, academia is quite anti-popular writing”

“Mainstream sociology & history have a bias towards thinking that nothing is new, ever, & thus ignored the internet”

“Use the emoticons & gift-wrap your message for data-miners or stick to plain English & limit yr audience to humans”

“Goatse was the perfect totem for a burgeoning web culture that prized free speech and unpredictability”

“Digital dualism can blind us to the real and serious problems of online vigilantism”

“Facebook invites us to forget we even had a self before Timeline was there to organize it”

“the emoticon scheme makes us shoppers for new, bonus feelings à la carte”

“Cable news is dead, but something keeps animating the corpse”

“memes circulate us rather than vice versa”

“many of the declarations whizzing around Boston look like sympathy but smell like attention-seeking”

“social networking sites are not a separate realm of political activity”

“the Google car was treated with deference no matter how recklessly we drove”

“iPad painting: just of the many similarities between George W. Bush and Churchill“

““No, but I’ve seen the GIFs,” I offered. This is what the future of music videos is up against”

“One of the unexpected pleasures of technology is the ability to simulate identities for ourselves with consumption”

“On the one hand, yay: My subconscious isn’t digital dualist”

“online buzz had no quantifiable impact on short-term sales”

“hardcore narcissists are put off by Facebook because it reveals that they are not the center of everyone else’s universe”