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The Use and Abuse of Joan Didion

Authors and their entire bodies of work can be encapsulated in fragments: a few underlined sentences from their books endlessly reposted on Instagram, influencers flaunting book covers on the beach, photographs of authors appearing lost in melancholy—or best of all, smoking—making rounds on the Internet.

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Will Jake and Logan Paul’s Haters Make Them Billionaires?

The behavior that makes Jake and Logan hard to take seriously is the same behavior that has kept them at the center of everything. Over the past two decades, Jake and Logan built a social media empire in public, amassing a combined following of more than 150 million and becoming a case study in growing up in the attention economy.

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Save us, Digital Cronkite!

Basically, spreading hate and divisiveness on social media is a form of entrepreneurship. As Eugene Wei has written, social media is all about getting social status. 10,000 followers on X may not sound like a media empire to rival CBS News, but for most people it's more attention than they would otherwise get in their entire life.

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The Monday Media Diet with Tom Junod

one of the ironies of writing a book is that your publisher asks to you sharpen your Instagram skills so that you can sell it on a platform that is wildly post-literate and is the same time the home of many writers dancing as fast as they can to create attention for the product of all that sweat and toil.