Eleanor Catton New Zealand novelist in 2013 became at 28, the youngest writer to be awarded the Booker prize.She continues to write.
Comments of interest on the digital world of communication from a recent Guardian interview.
“It seems to me that morality has always depended on there being a difference between saying something and doing it: saying I am a good person and then doing a good action,” she says. This distinction, she believes, has been eroded in our digital world, where you are what you tweet. Five years ago she quit all social media and hasn’t looked back. “I think that it is distorting human nature,” she says. “It’s altering the way that we think. It’s altering the way that we exist in time.”
She compares tweeting to “throwing a paper dart into the void” with no idea who that dart will hit or any obligation to follow up. “There’s no engagement with all of the more human emotional considerations that would come into an actual debate. It’s no wonder that these things become so poisonous and so polarized and so insoluble.”
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Feb 17, 2023 #TheDailyShow The New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author discusses how Big Tech companies profit off our emotions on social media
Jia Tolentino – Breaking The Emotional Cycle of Social Media | The Daily Show
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