{"id":12304,"date":"2012-10-07T11:03:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=12304"},"modified":"2012-10-07T11:11:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T15:11:53","slug":"in-their-words-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/07\/in-their-words-14\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2012\/10\/01\/quantifying-girlness.html\" target=\"_blank\">I still want to be a cyborg<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/staff.tumblr.com\/post\/32671284860\/live-giffing-the-2012-debates-this-wednesday\" target=\"_blank\">we\u2019ll have a crack team of GIF artists cranking out instant animations of the best debate moments<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/04\/us\/politics\/on-twitter-and-apps-audience-at-home-scores-the-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">And independent voters? The top term was \u201cLOL,\u201d short for laugh out loud<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/dtake\/dappled-things-pinkhassov-on-instagram\/\" target=\"_blank\">bad photos have found their apotheosis on social media, where everybody is a photographer<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/marginal-utility\/fragments-on-microcelebrity\/\" target=\"_blank\">I am only as secure as the last time I was retweeted<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pictureboxinc.com\/blogs\/muk-luk\/2012\/09\/30\/infomaniacs-season-2-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">everyone else seemed so natural in their tweeting. for me it was agony<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/zunguzungu\/my-norm-is-more-normal-than-yours-academic-tweeting-and-loose-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\">the friction of the digital divide in academia requires only the slightest irritation to hit a rolling bubbling, um, boil<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/10\/the-best-way-to-find-aliens-look-for-their-solar-power-plants\/263217\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s strange to write a serious research proposal &amp; have half of your bibliography be science fiction<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/xx_factor\/2012\/10\/03\/sexting_is_the_polaroid_of_our_time_why_are_we_shaming_teenagers_for_their_cell_phone_shots_.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;let\u2019s stop shaming teenagers for exploring sexual imagery through the cell phone shutter, instead of our own lens of 1960s nostalgia<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/04\/fashion\/the-gospel-according-to-pinterest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest is now jammed with inspirational quotes, some of which could have been lifted from fortune cookies<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/10\/the-terrible-fascinating-world-of-hate-blogs\" target=\"_blank\">the hate-blog phenomenon is basically anti-fandom<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thefrailestthing.com\/2012\/10\/05\/low-tech-practices-and-identity\/\" target=\"_blank\">low-tech objects that are the paraphernalia of hipster culture<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/social-networks-own-us-all-its-time-we-returned-the-favour\/article4591707\/\" target=\"_blank\">the public assumes that what is printed or pressed or somehow physically produced is of better quality<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/arts\/social-networks-own-us-all-its-time-we-returned-the-favour\/article4591707\/\" target=\"_blank\">the only way to not be used by the Internet is either to not use it, which is ridiculous, or to make something out of it<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/05\/salientification-explicitization-deobscuration-looking-for-less-awkward-words\/\" target=\"_blank\">is Klout trying to smack a glossy veneer of Science\u2122 onto social ranking?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<address><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Nathan on Twitter: @nathanjurgenson<\/a><\/em><\/address>\n<address><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\" target=\"_blank\"><!--more--><\/a><\/em><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefoxisblack.com\/2012\/09\/20\/james-minchins-behind-the-scenes-photos-of-mad-men\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12306\" title=\"madmen\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2012\/10\/madmen-500x359.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" 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