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Quotes About Digital culture

When I started on Twitter, I was just staggered by how rude people could be.
~ Katty Kay
three hours of this time (202 minutes) is spent entirely focused on electronic media. Only fifty-two minutes—or 7 percent of the day—is spent reading books and other printed media. The
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I think the Internet has given rise to voices that want to attack others.
~ Jeff Zucker
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
~ Dana Spiotta
I will never understand why the Internet seems to take away the basic humanity of most people,* and allows—no, enables*—them to say things that they'd never say to another person face-to-face.
~ Wil Wheaton
I am now [email protected]. @ could become the Mc or Mac of the next millennium.
~ Douglas Coupland
We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones.
~ Will Arnett
Instagram, blessed Novocaine of the soul! Foodholidayssmilinggroupsshopping.
~ Richard Flanagan
I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.
~ Tim Hecker
Computers don't kill books; people do.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it.
~ Mary H.K. Choi
My name is Dan, and I'm a technoholic.
~ Dan Levy
An entire generation of talented people - engineers, artists, scriptwriters, musicians, programmers - have been busy creating a whole new art form for us. The name of this new game is interactivity.
~ Ralph H. Baer
On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.
~ Ze Frank
I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.
~ Alia Shawkat
À medida que a mídia convencional tradicional é substituída por uma imprensa personalizada, a internet torna-se um espelho de nós mesmos. Em vez de usá-la para buscar notícias, informação ou cultura, nós a usamos para SERMOS de fato a notícia, a informação e a cultura.
~ Andrew Keen
One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
~ Yochai Benkler
As we get sucked more and more into the technosphere, we become less and less capable of understanding it because it becomes a technological milieu that we're in.
~ Douglas Tompkins
I can see firsthand being young and being from this generation as well that Instagram influences our minds in such a powerful way that sometimes we're not even aware of it.
~ Kiana Madeira
Social media is less about technology and more about anthropology, sociology, and ethnography.
~ Brian Solis
Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.
~ Brian Solis
As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.
~ Jenna Wortham