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The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time

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How did the internet disrupt 20th century timekeeping systems and spark an insurgence of alternative historical narratives? How do old media institutions try (and fail) to keep up with the narratives of online subcultures? How does the immediate accessibility of so many alt histories undermine our ability to create shared visions of the future? And how might a more ecological awareness of the internet help us adapt to our disorienting digital time machines?

The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time AZL .BLOG re: media memory & metaphor The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time July 7, 2020 × Aaron Z. Lewis × Weare, NH My Dad first gave me The Talk when I was 12 or 13. We were driving down the freeway, and he asked me if I'd ever been judged or harassed for being black. I remember this conversation vividly because my family doesn't talk too much about their personal experiences with racial discrimination. For the most part, they tend to focus on their blessings and joys and triumphs.

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