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The Times’ journalists treated their public at times as an audience whose interests they wrote to serve, and at other times as an audience whose addressability they used to sustain themselves.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
The coolhunters each had their own way of finding hits. Every morning, Harper scoured a list she’d assembled of blogs and internet arcana, searching for interesting videos. When she found ones worth putting on the homepage, she would add them to YouTube’s “Featured Videos” banner, which stacked small frames of videos in a column of 10. Her team swapped these slots every four hours, giving YouTubers behind the videos they selected a guaranteed cascade of views.
Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits
Mark Bergen
For although the jianghu is often described in a rhetoric of mutual reciprocity and trust, the interpersonal relationships that actually constitute it are “held together by shifting bonds of morality, desire, and interest” that make them “highly fragile and contingent.”
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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