{"id":1324441,"date":"2015-11-11T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2015\/11\/11\/the-rot-were-seeing-in-twitter-is\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:02:04","slug":"the-rot-were-seeing-in-twitter-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/11\/the-rot-were-seeing-in-twitter-is\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201c The rot we\u2019re seeing in Twitter is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8230;The rot we\u2019re seeing in Twitter is the rot of participatory media devolved into competitive spheres where the collective \u2018we\u2019 treats conversational contributions as fixed print-like identity claims,\u201d Bonnie Stewart writes.<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political statements by people outside the conversation. Because there\u2019s a kind of sensationalistic value in interpreting someone\u2019s chattiness in partisan terms, tweets \u201care taken up as magnum opi to be leapt upon and eviscerated, not only by ideological opponents or threatened employers but by in-network peers.\u201d &#8221;<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;Anthropologists who study digital spaces have diagnosed that a common problem of online communication is \u201ccontext collapse.\u201d This plays with the oral-literate distinction: When you speak face-to-face, you\u2019re always judging what you\u2019re saying by the reaction of the person you\u2019re speaking to. But when you write (or make a video or a podcast) online, what you\u2019re saying can go anywhere, get read by anyone, and suddenly your words are finding audiences you never imagined you were speaking to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/11\/conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay\/412867\/<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8230;The rot we\u2019re seeing in Twitter is the rot of participatory media devolved into competitive spheres where the collective \u2018we\u2019 treats conversational contributions as fixed print-like identity claims,\u201d Bonnie Stewart writes. &#8220;In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[334,71],"views":790,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}