Quotes About Digital culture

With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

'Instagram' is definitely becoming a new entertainment source for people day after day.

Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.

It's not even about you. It's just what people like to do online.

The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks that look like this # - were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.

I'm not on Twitter, but I am on Instagram and follow Lena Dunham and Usher.

The panoply of consumers has iPhones or the lower-priced clones not because of what they represent but because of what they do.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

If you're fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly efficient communal prosthetic memory. I also suspect that you don't know it, because, as anthropologists tell us, one cannot know one's own culture.

A Long Tail is just culture unfiltered by economic scarcity.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

By discussing "spreadable media," we aim to facilitate a more nuanced account of how and why things spread and to encourage our readers to adopt and help build a more holistic and sustainable model for understanding how digital culture operates.

Online, there is an irresistible social currency to being a user who has thousands of followers, who starts memes, who comes up with an idea that is turned into a movie. But I wonder how comfortable we should be with this arrangement.

Look at social media. I could post something about saving orphans and I'd be attacked as a sex-trafficking pedophile. People are such animals online.

The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure out what they really are.

If television is a quick detour to mass stupidity, then video games are the express lane.

Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.

If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50.

In theory, the maturation of the Internet should have killed off the desire for zines entirely.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

she spent all day arguing with people she didn't know on Twitter and ended a fair proportion of her tweets by saying 'Do better' while secretly realising she was telling herself to do that.