Aram Zucker-Scharff

““Everything we blog, everything we Tweet, and everything we click is a public act of making media. We are the new editors. We decide what gets attention based on what we give our attention to. That’s how the media works now. There’s all these hidden algorithms that decide what you see more of and what we all see more of based on what you click on, and that in turn shapes our whole culture.””

– “Don’t like clickbait? Don’t click”, Sally Kohn (2014)

explore-blog:

Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon – fantastic TED talk by New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, who relies heavily on Arthur Koestler’s famous “bisociation” theory of how humor works to explain what makes cartoons successful.