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Pop culture is so boring now compared to what it used to be, so a lot more people are clinging onto people online,” Mr. Garner said. During a 10-minute Periscope live stream from his parents’ home in suburban Delaware last month, Mr. Garner chatted about what brand of water he drinks, his favorite video games and whether he dyed his hair. Mr. Garner often streams with Mr. Hill as a duo, and the two are now making more money than they know what to do with, they say. “I know we can invest, but we hate capitalism,” Mr. Hill said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/style/jovan-hill-live-stream-social-media-money.html

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The tools of his trade include an iPhone X and marijuana blunts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/style/jovan-hill-live-stream-social-media-money.html

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“We basically came to an agreement where it was like, if you want me to be sitting in my room and going live every day, you need to pay my rent,” Mr. Hill said. “At first that was like $300 to live in a basement, but then they wanted me to have a better life.”

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Live-Streaming Your Broke Self for Rent Money

Jovan Hill, 25, dropped out of college and is unemployed. So how does he pay for his Brooklyn apartment and marijuana habit? His social media followers chip in.

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Drawing cat whiskers on Comey. Viewers voting on a telenovela plot. How Super Deluxe is shaping the future of TV.

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Via Nidhi Singh. Free pdf to read here http://watchmeplay.cc/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/WatchMePlayCC.pdf

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“This, in essence, is the premise of Latour’s latest book, “Down to Earth,” an illuminating and counterintuitive analysis of the present post-truth moment, which will be published in the United States next month. What journalists, scientists and other experts fail to grasp, Latour argues, is that “facts remain robust only when they are supported by a common culture, by institutions that can be trusted, by a more or less decent public life, by more or less reliable media.” With the rise of alternative facts, it has become clear that whether or not a statement is believed depends far less on its veracity than on the conditions of its “construction” — that is, who is making it, to whom it’s being addressed and from which institutions it emerges and is made visible. A greater understanding of the circumstances out of which misinformation arises and the communities in which it takes root, Latour contends, will better equip us to combat it.”

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Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science

“Latour turned this notion on its head. In a series of controversial books in the 1970s and 1980s, he argued that scientific facts should instead be seen as a product of scientific inquiry. Facts, Latour said, were “networked”; they stood or fell not on the strength of their inherent veracity but on the strength of the institutions and practices that produced them and made them intelligible. If this network broke down, the facts would go with them... If scientific knowledge was socially produced — and thus partial, fallible, contingent — how could that not weaken its claims on reality? At the height of the conflict, the physicist Alan Sokal, who was under the impression that Latour and his S.T.S. colleagues thought that “the laws of physics are mere social conventions,” invited them to jump out the window of his 21st-floor apartment.” - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-post-truth-philosopher-science.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad

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“Today the media landscape looks different than it did in 1999. It is nearly indistinguishable from reality, and vice versa. Turning ‘off’ is more or less illusory.” —Bunny Rogers