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__The internet, in this perspective, can be said to materialize the virtuality of the media’s publics.__ By constituting a contingent and evolving configuration of routes through which digital texts (such as online news articles) may address themselves to readers, internet technologies give material form to the fact that a news article’s public is never a predetermined group but an always open-ended entity that will come into existence wherever the article is (clicked on and) read.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
Therefore I think there is little excuse for young people to live in Hong Kong. They should hop over to Shenzhen, which is an hour away by subway and decades younger by spirit. Shenzhen and Guangzhou are still attracting entrepreneurial types, producing an even more commercially-oriented culture than Shanghai. But while Shenzhen is pleasant, it is also a boring city with minimal culture.
2021 Letter | Dan Wang
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to “elevate” the average sophistication of writing on their platform, Medium hired journalists and authors to write for them, and even had a strategy to get people to create entire professional magazine-like publications on their platform. Some of the writing that came out of this was truly incredible, but it also cost a lot of money, which was quickly becoming an issue.
Did Medium Succeed?
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