Life in the Instagram bubble requires a constant calibration of how it will be viewed from outside.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Life in the Instagram bubble requires a constant calibration of how it will be viewed from outside.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Part of the pleasure of Instagram is the way it edits out the ugly emotions that make up so much of the rest of social media.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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The longer one lives in this world, the more tempting it becomes to escape, and to disappear.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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The greatest source of fascination in our daily lives isn’t art or politics or faith, but the lives of the people around us, and those of people we’ve never met.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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In its exclusion of links, minimization of text, and encouragement of gauzy filters, Instagram turns every smartphone into its own little Silver Pavilion, through which the user can both cultivate a world and blot out what they don’t wish to see.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Like other social media platforms, Instagram may owe much of its success to its role as a supremely efficient brain parasite, feeding on our need for instant connection and validation.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Today, we look at Instagram feeds with the same level of scrutiny as the Renaissance merchants who converted their Madonnas into ducats. Only the criteria of judgment have changed. Does the user obey the unwritten laws of adult Instagram, posting less than once a day, avoiding too many shots of their face, going easy on the hashtags?
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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Art changes all the time, and when it changes, so does its history.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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