“Disdaining the wasteful, elitist space where bands hankered after record-company expense accounts that would pay for hookers and villas in the South of France, Silicon Valley presented itself as the tribune of average-Joe air guitarists who never got their shot at the American Dream. It was easy to…”Tagged: Celeberity, celebrity, Fandom, Music
“It has been fascinating for me to watch my story go through the looking glass of social media. The story itself has vanished, replaced by a digital mash-up of slurs and invective, supported by stray phrases that have been mechanically tweezered from different texts. The issues that Rhodes raises in…”Tagged: Social Media, Passion Media, Illusion of Facts Will Suffice
“Rhodes readily admitted to me that the work he does is a potentially dangerous distortion of democracy, but he also felt that it had become a necessary evil, caused by the fracturing of the 20th-century mass audience and the decline of the American press. He expressed a deep personal hopelessness…”Tagged: Democracy, The Great Reversal, Rational Discussion, Partisanship, Media Control