The Gatekeepers Aren’t Gone
Viral content seems democratic. But it’s still mostly controlled by big media companies.
Marta Figlerowicz is an assistant professor of comparative literature and English at Yale University. She is the author of Flat Protagonists (Oxford 2016) and Spaces of Feeling (Cornell 2017, forthcoming), and is currently at work on a new book project on phenomenology in the digital age.
Viral content seems democratic. But it’s still mostly controlled by big media companies.