Pauline Frommer's London: Spend Less, See More
by Jason Cochran · 5 Feb 2007 · 388pp · 211,074 words
multimedia tour of the highlights that plays on a Blackberry-like device that shows you additional images as it embellishes on the works’ meaning and context. Collapsible stools, interspersed around the galleries on wall-mounted racks, are another thoughtful touch for those who like to sketch artwork. There are two free daily
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
by Nicholas Carr · 28 Jan 2025 · 231pp · 85,135 words
Culture, ed. Joe Karaganis (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007), 132–157. 18.Michael Wesch, “YouTube and You: Experiences of Self-Awareness in the Context Collapse of the Recording Webcam,” Explorations in Media Ecology 8, no. 2 (2009): 19–34. 19.David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson · 11 Sep 2013 · 397pp · 110,130 words
quite sure who’s going to see this stuff, or when. Since anything online can be copied and circulated, you also get what boyd calls “context collapse”: sexy talk meant for your partner gets seen by your mother when you accidentally mismanage the settings on your social tools. In 1984, Orwell popularized
…
the joke goes, if you’re not paying for a service, it’s because you’re the product.) Indeed, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explicitly favors context collapse. He has said he believes there’s something shady about having different sides to your personality. “The days of you having a different image for
…
to run, hobbyists don’t need to succumb to the privacy-eroding logic of monetization. And in smaller, more intimate groups, participants worry less about context collapse. Other forums—like the infamous 4chan or the mothers’ board YouBeMom—offer radical anonymity as a way to encourage people to speak freely, and the
How to Do Nothing
by Jenny Odell · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 76,686 words
could somehow hold all of this. I use the lens of the human bodily need for spatial and temporal context to understand the violence of “context collapse” online and propose a kind of “context collection” in its place. Understanding that meaningful ideas require incubation time and space, I look both to noncommercial
…
late. Vox and other outlets have been quick to identify these experiences as examples of what technology and social-media scholar danah boyd would call “context collapse.” A 2011 study that boyd conducted with Alice E. Marwick found that Twitter users who had built the most successful personal brands did so by
…
into a void that could include close friends, family, potential employers, and (as recent events have shown us) sworn enemies. Marwick and boyd describe how context collapse creates a “lowest-common-denominator philosophy of sharing [that] limits users to topics that are safe for all possible readers.”4 When the alt-right
…
financial model, the storm is nothing but a bounteous uptick in engagement. * * * — IN A 2013 blog post about whether or not she coined the term “context collapse,” boyd points to her indebtedness to a book by Joshua Meyrowitz called No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. Written
…
lack of integrity.”8 Imagine what Audre Lorde, with all her different selves, would have to say to him. * * * — AS NO SENSE OF PLACE attests, context collapse is something we can understand spatially. But this process has a temporal cousin, which is an analogous collapse into a permanent instantaneity. Just as a
…
being researched. * * * — I THINK OFTEN about how much time and energy we use thinking up things to say that would go over well with a context-collapsed crowd—not to mention checking back on how that crowd is responding. This is its own form of “research,” and when I do it, it
…
real room or a group chat on Signal, I want to see a restoration of context, a kind of context collection in the face of context collapse. If we have only so much attention to give, and only so much time on this earth, we might want to think about reinfusing our
…
I’ve argued, certain types of thought require certain types of spaces, then any attempt at “context collection” will have to deal not only with context collapse online, but with preserving public and open space, as well as the meeting places important to threatened cultures and communities. In a time increasingly referred
…
/woodpeckers-partner-fungi-build-homes. 3. Oliveros, Deep Listening, xxv. 4. Alice E. Marwick and danah boyd, “I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience,” New Media and Society 13 (1). 5. Joshua Meyrowitz, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
by Gretchen McCulloch · 22 Jul 2019 · 413pp · 106,479 words
simply a shiny new social networking site. By joining the social internet after their parents were already there, they faced an especially dire version of “context collapse.” This is danah boyd’s term for when people from all your overlapping friend groups see all your shared posts from different aspects of your
…
life. For adults who occasionally see a coworker’s personal photos or political updates, context collapse is a fairly minor issue, a problem of specific individuals being indiscreet. For young people, context collapse is a collective problem: they need space to figure out who they are, where they aren’t
…
/dialect-quiz-map.html. Regardless of who technically has access: Alice E. Marwick and danah boyd. 2011. “I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience.” New Media & Society 13(1). pp. 114–133. When the Library of Congress announced: Matt Raymond. April 14, 2010. “How Tweet
…
”: danah boyd. 2015. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Yale University Press. “context collapse”: danah boyd. December 8, 2013. “How ‘Context Collapse’ Was Coined: My Recollection.” Apophenia. www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/12/08/coining-context-collapse.html. linguist Michelle McSweeney: Note that some of McSweeney’s examples are partially in Spanish
…
Cyberspace 7(1). A study of queer youth: Stefanie Duguay. 2014. “‘He Has a Way Gayer Facebook Than I Do’: Investigating Sexual Identity Disclosure and Context Collapse on a Social Networking Site.” New Media & Society 18(6). pp. 891–907. Technologist danah boyd: danah boyd and Alice Marwik. 2011. “Social Steganography: Privacy
…
differences, 41–45 cliques, dialect differences in, 38 columbusing, 51 commas as separation characters, 96, 112, 113 complexity of messages, 57–58 compound words, 48 context collapse, 103 conversations, 197–236 fluid norms of, 198 and greetings in emails, 204–7 interruptions in, 209, 215, 219 needs met in, 199 phatic expressions
…
effect, 65 Freeman, Nina, 79, 80 friendliness, conveying, 124 friendships on the internet, 63, 74–75 Friendster, 103 Full Internet People cohort, 78–84 and context collapse issue, 103 and email, 90, 92–93 and memes, 246, 252 social function of internet for, 77, 78, 82, 100, 103 typing skills of, 122
…
polite hedges in communication, 122–23 political aspects of grammar attitudes, 47 poo emoji, 162–63, 172–73 Post Internet People cohort, 99–108 and context collapse issue, 103 internet experience of, 93 “lol” used by, 92, 104–6 and memes, 252 social function of internet for, 100, 103, 107 technological skill
…
cohort, 99 for Semi Internet People cohort, 85, 89–90 social identity, 50 social media age requirements for, 101 and age of user, 85 and context collapse issue, 103 disappearing content on, 104, 222–23 editing of posts on, 215 and Full Internet People cohort, 78, 83 and hashtags, 128–30 hate
…
., 44 Xanga, 78 Xeroxlore, 255, 256 X-Files, The (television series), 132 Xu, Christina, 247 “yinz” (plural “you”), 23 youth coded posts of, 232 and context collapse issue, 103 and devices, 101 and emojis, 189–90 and entrance into social groups, 32 informal/formal language mix used by, 59–60 and instant
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
of the traditional barriers between the cocoon of college and the outside world were breaking down. A media theorist would call this a form of context collapse—thanks to new technologies, different worlds were suddenly mixing, reading about one another. Stories about college life filtered through blogs and social media to the
…
BARRIERS COME DOWN Although they didn’t have a term for it at the time, Brandeis and Warren were contending with what some theorists call “context collapse.” Technology and a growing cultural appetite for news and prurient gossip were eroding barriers between certain social settings. Traditionally private events and personal details were
…
tracking interaction with retail store displays, 301 See also human beings consumption recommendations, 202 content licenses for e-books, 255 content moderators, 230–31, 244 context collapse and privacy, 290–92 continuous partial attention, 51–52 contractor reviews, 191 cookies, 306 Coolidge, Calvin, 23 Corona, Fabrizio, 211–12 corporations. See companies corrections
…
, 62–63 Premise, 228 presidential press conferences, 105 pricing and individual data, 318 privacy overview, 284–86 and Big Data, 316 as commodity, 283 and context collapse, 290–92 as cost of free service, 281–82 EU and European privacy protections, xiii, 275 evolving standards, 286–88 and Facebook, 281, 286, 287
…
media overview, viii–x, 22, 160–61 and advertising, 23–24, 31–35, 148 and bots, 38–39 as community of choice, 257–58 and context collapse, 290–92 and flash crashes, 39–40 interrelating sites, 161, 246 intolerance of fakery and obfuscation, 74 and journalists, 97, 108, 148 labor markets compared
…
Law, 288 See also companies; Silicon Valley TechCrunch, 106–7 technological determinism and Libertarian individualism, 1–3 technology overview, xii and busyness, 334–36 and context collapse, 290–92 defenders of status quo, xii–xiii determining course of, xiii–xiv and instantaneous global communication, 3–4 and privacy, in the 1890s, 288
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff · 15 Jan 2019 · 918pp · 257,605 words
the Seventh International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2013; Alice E. Marwick and danah boyd, “I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience,” New Media & Society 13, no. 1 (2011): 114–33. 64. Shoshana Zuboff, file note, November 9, 2017, Queen’s University, Kingston
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
by Nadia Eghbal · 3 Aug 2020 · 1,136pp · 73,489 words
. Instead of “competing for status in small tribes,” people find themselves “dropped into a talent show,” competing against strangers. Anthropologist Michael Wesch uses the term “context collapse” to describe how YouTube’s wide reach affects how people present themselves online. Instead of having in-person interactions, which occur within a specific context
…
, YouTube creators experience “an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording.”122 While Wesch focuses on the effects of context collapse on individuals, online communities experienced their own version of context collapse when platforms turned the “panopticon” upon itself, inducing a flood of newcomers
…
, 2019, https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service. 122 Michael Wesch, “YouTube and You: Experiences of Self-Awareness in the Context Collapse of the Recording Webcam,” Explorations in Media Ecology 8, no. 2 (2009): 19–34. 123 Robert E. Kraut and Paul Resnick, Building Successful Online Communities
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci · 14 May 2017 · 444pp · 130,646 words
Marc Lynch, “Twitter Devolutions,” Foreign Policy, February 7, 2013, https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/02/07/twitter-devolutions/. 30. M. Wesch, “Context Collapse,” Digital Ethnography, July 31, 2008, http://mediatedcultures.net/projects/youtube/context-collapse. 31. Tahi L. Mottl, “The Analysis of Countermovements,” Social Problems 27, no. 5 (1980): 620–35. 32. K. Hampton, L
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words
grandmother. In the past decade, on scaled-up mixed platforms where keeping identities pristinely separate is next to impossible, the resulting drama is known as “context collapse.” So let’s zoom out a bit. Rather than “end racism,” the internet does—however modestly—inspire people to think differently about race. Racism didn
…
in social media was posted in the possibility that somewhere, someone was a fly on the wall for it. A famous and innocuous example of context collapse at scale happened when a woman texting photos of a dress to her daughter initiated a global debate over whether it was white and gold
…
’s identity to her clients, or a psychiatrist’s list of patients. The reporter Kashmir Hill maintains a list of these examples, which go beyond context collapse: a robber to his victim, the mistress who broke up a marriage forty years ago; a man who once donated sperm to a couple saw
…
transition from flip phones to iPhones earlier in a piece for Medium (“iPhone Dreams,” April 24, 2014). For more on the topic of sharing and context collapse, see the “Twitter is public” debate on Gawker and elsewhere circa 2013. One of the origins of Weird Twitter humor was Something Awful’s FYAD
…
Conversation with Natacha Stolz,” November 24, 2010). Later, I interviewed Cole Stryker for Rhizome (“Cole Stryker, Author of ‘Epic Win for Anonymous,’ on Interior Semiotics, Context Collapse, and ‘You Rage You Lose,’” September 12, 2011). In that interview, he summarized 4chan’s indignation by saying that the “internet used to be full
IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives
by Chris Stedman · 19 Oct 2020 · 307pp · 101,998 words
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
by Adam Aleksic · 15 Jul 2025 · 278pp · 71,701 words
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier · 28 May 2018 · 151pp · 39,757 words