Brian Gettler on Nostr: I listened to a CBC piece on social media this morning and it occurs to me that so ...

I listened to a CBC piece on social media this morning and it occurs to me that so much of the tension it causes arises from mischaracterization. Despite corporate marketing types and business profs referring to Twitter ad naseum as a digital "town square," it strikes me as being more of an agora in a digital shopping mall.

As a historian, I'd like to suggest thinking about social media in terms of change over a longer period of time than we tend to.

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