{"id":14358,"date":"2013-02-17T01:43:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T05:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=14358"},"modified":"2013-02-17T01:43:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T05:43:46","slug":"in-their-words-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/02\/17\/in-their-words-33\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/09\/technology\/snapchat-a-growing-app-lets-you-see-it-then-you-dont.html?_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook has certainly taken notice of the desire for impermanence<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/writingthroughthefog.com\/2013\/02\/09\/granada\/\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s interesting that we now create things specifically to forget<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/112189\/social-media-doesnt-always-help-social-movements\" target=\"_blank\">networks can be far more tyrannical, opaque, and anti-democratic than hierarchies<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/02\/12\/in-snapchat-we-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snapchat subverts the affordances of networked publics&#8230;the technology now\u2014not the recipient\u2014is the trusted object<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/zunguzungu\/tree-sitting\/\" target=\"_blank\">using the magic word \u201cMOOC,\u201d the privatization disappears in a puff of euphemism. We are instead \u201cexpanding access&#8221;<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/single-servings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Just as CafePress can sell you a customized T-Shirt, why shouldn\u2019t OKCupid aspire to sell you a customized partner?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/marginal-utility\/social-discovery-vs-sociability\/\" target=\"_blank\">use online connectivity not to try to define ourselves perfectly but to undo ourselves over and over<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/firstmonday.org\/htbin\/cgiwrap\/bin\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/3930\/3413\" target=\"_blank\">social media seem to intersect interpersonal sociality and corporate monetization<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nathanjurgenson.tumblr.com\/post\/43250913737\/this-state-of-not-being-observed-would-begin-to\" target=\"_blank\">they all took snapshots and movies of each other out of fear of experiencing the meaninglessness of their existence<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Nathan is on Twitter [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\" target=\"_blank\">@nathanjurgenson<\/a>] and Tumblr [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanjurgenson.com\" target=\"_blank\">nathanjurgenson.com<\/a>].<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/a7651efbca98ea9d494ca423a8aac259\/tumblr_mi5w9kuZNt1r8z539o1_500.jpg\" width=\"389\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/d33d11135ee49dd87a421429e4e30ff5\/tumblr_mhv7gj8MK61qifeb3o1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/ad0f8558f052fc99a150df87535fbd8e\/tumblr_mhh57fclNr1s49of6o1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/pics-and-it-didnt-happen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/faf76fad7e91741d02b1dafd4662581a\/tumblr_mhv0t88AY11qa30ixo1_400.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tech and society quotes from what i read this past week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18297],"tags":[36439,2954,18298,3507,12],"class_list":["post-14358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-their-words","tag-in-their-words","tag-jurgenson","tag-quotes","tag-society","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14361,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14358\/revisions\/14361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}