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“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...
Tagged humor, Internet memes, memes, social media, twitter |
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...
Tagged YouTube |
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...
Tagged BuzzFeed, pettiness, petty, Semantics, social media, twitter |
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...
Tagged Facebook, online conversation, online discourse, public discourse |
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...
Tagged pettiness, petty, power, social media, twitter |
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,...
Tagged Business, Children’s entertainment, Facebook, Fake News, Google, Internet, Silicon Valley, twitter, YouTube |
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...
Tagged mobile phones, Movies, SnapChat, social media, Television, YouTube |
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...
Tagged Facebook, legal talismans, liberal democracies, Reddit, social media, social platforms, twitter, user agreements |
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...
Tagged anti-semitism, social media |
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...
Tagged Al Qaeda, ISIS, social media |
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