I actually view Kyle Chayka's New Yorker article as a parody. While lamenting how advertising (rather than subscriptions) pays for the internet, Chayka points to the conversion of internet users into content producing machine as the failure of the networked self. All this while hopping from one meme to the next in a comic-book movie of an article without any real point except to say "the Instagram egg has yet to fully hatch." I feel that Chayka wants to be a content-producing machine, and that the real problem is the competition from everyone else. Only some people should get a mass audience, not everybody - or so the publisher and magazine writer's logic goes. Via Aaron Davis.
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