2024/06/13

Chelsea Manning Laments Social Media Atomization

● 13/06/2024
“Now we’re so separated and split up that we don’t have this single mass-mediated culture anymore. We have these commodified, cellular microcultures which are turned into products and mechanisms of online engagement.”
– Activist and whistleblower Chelsea Manning, lamenting the atomization caused by social media. In conversation with e-flux to mark the 20th anniversary of McKenzie Wark’s A Hacker Manifesto, Manning dwells on the slow death of journalism and how Silicon Valley venture capitalists will inevitably corrupt Web3.
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