Twitter “Twitter, in its imposed brevity, seems to affirm the aphorism’s original meaning: be intelligently succinct” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 August 2019 What of Twitter? “Brevity is the soul of wit,” Shakespeare’s Polonius says, issuing the...
YouTube “…some magical place where a total lack of any discernible talent or intelligence or interpersonal skills had never interfered with anyone’s success” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 April 2019 When it finally sunk in that I’m not the next Nabokov, I got pretty...
Internet, Semantics, Social Media “Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild slights by putting an absurd amount of energy into plotting meaningless reprisals” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 April 2018 Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild...
Facebook “If you feel that these media influence and inform public opinion – and swing elections! – then abandoning Facebook and deleting your account may actually be civically irresponsible” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 April 2018 1. FB promised to be and, in many ways, has become a new public...
Social Media, Twitter “The value of sweating the small stuff, it turns out, depends quite a lot on how much power you have to affect the big stuff” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 March 2018 It would be easy to assume, surveying the national scene, that pettiness is universally...
Business, Entertainment, Internet, Social Media “Our present panics tend to arrive just as new parts of our economy, culture and politics are reconstituted within platform marketplaces” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 February 2018 The internet of the 1990s was a perfect canvas for alarmism: hard to define,...
Internet, Social Media, Technology Considering vertical vs horizontal perspectives Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 September 2017 Before 1930, moving picture aspect ratios were all over the place. But mass distribution...
Facebook, Social Media, Twitter “Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 September 2017 Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms: as...
Anti-Semitism, Social Media “I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has been an increase in the permissibility of the expressions of anti-Semitism and its amplification by the tools of social media” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 April 2017 I doubt there has been an increase in anti-Semitism as much as there has...
Social Media “…the most significant way in which the Islamic State has exhibited its media savviness has been through its embrace of openness” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 March 2017 …the most significant way in which the Islamic State has exhibited its media savviness...