the Internet is making people see the world more like journalists, isn't it?

 

 

 

life as an endless succession of stories, events, talking points...

 

 

 

the endless swelling and crashing of informational surface waves at the shore of the public gaze...

 

 

 

everyone's becoming a critic

 

 

 

some learn to create content too, to be the event/force/signal itself, to transmit, reverse the gaze

 

 

 

but even more passive recievers are often learning the importance of finding a way to interpret those signals

 

 

 

because to learn to read the informational terrain is to to navigate it with advantage

 

 

 

and to gain control and articulation in one's gaze over the terrain is to define it