"Because on the Web we perform our most clickable selves, academics and the writers who read them have segued from discussing “Internet fame” to saying the Internet makes us all famous. Progressive observers, like Alice Marwick or Rob Horning, are concerned with the commodification of self via social media and “microfame.” Whether micro or macro, the trade-off for fame is privacy, and – particularly in the case of Facebook – we’re sacrificing wider and wider swaths of it for (usually, relatively) narrow public recognition."'via Blog this'
Interesting reflections on a number of subjects from social networks to art and music to reality tv.
