As I approach my second decade studying digital media, there’s one thing I keep noticing: There are always new digital media phenomena! And the old ones continue to change or fall into obscurity! In my opinion, we should pay attention to these new things, figure out what they are, who is consuming them, and what they are doing. But our epistemic institutions are bad at this, for two reasons:
This is genuinely impressive, TRUE science imho, in the traditional sense.