{"id":13715,"date":"2013-01-06T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2013-01-06T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:25:58","slug":"in-their-words-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/01\/06\/in-their-words-27\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

“the direct facial and self-valorizing imperatives of Facebook, the endless memetic re-postings of tumblr, fashion blogs, and so on<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve become better at choreographing ourselves and showing our best sides to the screen<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“75 percent of the world\u2019s heads of state have a presence on Twitter<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Forget about bowling alone: In Toffler’s future, we’d all be telecommuting together”<\/a><\/p>\n

“A quarter million comments land in HuffPost\u2019s assorted in-boxes every day<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“On Snapchat, sexual identity isn\u2019t cemented through a series of boxes & menus<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“using drugged milkshakes to knock out the parents of one of the girls so they could log on to the Internet<\/a>“<\/p>\n

“I am terrified that everything I believe about photography is over because of the computer & easy manipulation<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Is digital labour work that transcends capitalism and\/or is it subsumed to capital?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“companies like Apple make the ride so pretty that many of us are content to look out the windows and admire the view<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“On Facebook, women were still expected to expose themselves and yet to remain chaste<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Internet dating destroyed my sense of myself as someone I both know and understand and can also put into words<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Speaking and writing both survived the print revolution, and print will survive the Internet revolution<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson<\/a>] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com<\/a>].<\/em><\/p>\n

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In 2045, I hope a 90 year-old @tomhanks<\/a> makes a THAT THING YOU DO-style movie about the early years of podcasting.<\/p>\n

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 5, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n