internet content curation the many ways in which this comes about in each new age of too much noise. particular sites or blogs curating good content Facebook pages or other social media accounts that curate external content clip compilations for video formats repost-only blogs and short-form video accounts search engine curation that has now become AI assisted search personality driven clip shows on traditional and newer media with varying levels of success the whole genre of reddit rereads currently, substack(?) or medium subscriptions or general email newsletters that feature miscellaneous links, signal a return to earlier internet need fir curation but now due to oversaturation ...
internet cultures The internet now as a representative of mass culture, a conglomeration of special interest areas and personally curated feeds of more and less ubiquity Popular culture now looks like what? ‘Relatable’ content based more or less on certain lifestyles The concept of ‘viral’ in the early years meaning everyone internet connected saw it, vs now. The power of cookies, stored data, analytics, targeted advertising forming not a mass hive mind of indoctrination but actually specialising and specifying people into isolation. Mass control of content by corporations use to over generalise which isolated outsiders but now it bands outsiders together, which can be both beneficial and harmful Incredibly specialized niches in reddit forums and other special-purpose sites and forums Locality/community? Community Facebook pages and Marketplace, ‘Nextdoor’ type apps community guidelines parasocial relationships personal branding, aliases, avatars, multi-identity, relatability cultural exchange ...