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  1. The New YorkerPaul Elie3/19/205 min
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    • chrissetiana
      Top reader of all time
      3 years ago

      It was there, most blithely, as an expression of the reach and spontaneity of social media. We watched as cat videos, practical jokes, blunders, over-the-shoulder half-court shots, and celebrity meltdowns all went “viral.” And it was there in the notion that those who could make things go viral were to be celebrated, cultivated, compensated, imitated. The term devised for them—we realize, in rueful retrospect—has a distinct echo of the worst virus of modern times, the influenza pandemic of 1918. They were called influencers.

    • Pegeen
      Top reader this weekReading streakScoutScribe
      4 years ago

      A thoughtful, informative article. “Enthralled with virus as metaphor and the terms associated with it - spread, growth,reach,connectedness - we ceased to be vigilant. Jetting around the world, we stopped washing our hands.”

    • bill
      Top reader of all time
      4 years ago

      Sane and smart.