The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

There is no news industry.