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Are Twitter’s Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media? (Rerun)
Are Twitter’s Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media? (Rerun)
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Length:
35 minutes
Released:
Jun 21, 2023
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Podcast episode
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For a few days in early November, it seemed like Twitter might go down in flames. That hasn’t happened—yet—but the prospect of the platform’s end has forced a reckoning. What would its loss mean for the countless journalists, academics, and politicians who rely on it? Would we be better or worse off? And could a diminished Twitter augur the death of social media in general? On episode 58 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk with the writer Max Read about Twitter’s possible futures, and with Ian Bogost, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, about why we should embrace the end of social media.
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Released:
Jun 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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