{"id":15151,"date":"2013-04-07T00:24:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=15151"},"modified":"2013-04-07T00:24:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T04:24:53","slug":"in-their-words-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/04\/07\/in-their-words-40\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/oakland\/the-bacon-wrapped-economy\/Content?oid=3494301&amp;showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s a strong, specifically technocratic conflation between efficiency and good in Silicon Valley<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.ae\/how-drones-date-online\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drones date online, but drones don\u2019t think about it the way that humans do<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/benjameme.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Work of Art in the Age of the Internet<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2013\/04\/facebookqa\/\" target=\"_blank\">We have a billion folks using our services now, and we want to get to 3 or 5 billion one day<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/04\/the-soul-of-a-new-facebook-machine\/274678\/\" target=\"_blank\">Throughout Zuckerberg&#8217;s talk, people and Facebook friends were used interchangeably<\/a>&#8220;<a dir=\"ltr\" title=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/04\/the-soul-of-a-new-facebook-machine\/274678\/\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/574ozwybsF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-expanded-url=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/04\/the-soul-of-a-new-facebook-machine\/274678\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uic.edu\/htbin\/cgiwrap\/bin\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/4616\/3419\" target=\"_blank\">there is general, assumed agreement on what social media is even as there is significant doubt as to whether society exists<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/04\/05\/pinterest-and-playing-gender\/\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s a stereotypical Pinterest user and I can\u2019t escape the feeling that it is what I have become<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/a-history-of-like\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Like button tears aside this veil to reveal the cloying, pathetic, Willy Lomanesque need of marketers to have their brands be well-liked<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>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--><\/i><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jwherrman\/weird-twitter-the-oral-history\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/25.media.tumblr.com\/64bbc29f0b9fb8c38e1f6ddc230e20cd\/tumblr_mksvud39KG1r8z539o1_500.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the image for a history of Weird Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/a125bab69f6bbbc7ab85325459397074\/tumblr_mkkvnpajfA1r8z539o1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tech and society quotes from what i read this past 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