📱 Shaped By Tools - The Post-Evangelical Post by Blake Chastain

📱 Shaped By Tools

📱The Impossibility of Fallow Periods Online

Or, "Sorry I haven't been posting!"

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📱| Verifiably Confusing: Status Anxiety, Conferred Legitimacy, and Verification's Pay-to-Play Pivot

I'll admit it - I coveted the blue check I never got. But that’s changed.

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📱The Vibe Shift That Was Foretold Came, & Twitter Did Not Survive It

Social Media Reconsidered, Redux

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📱Twitter Enters Its Musk Era.

And plenty of people may decide to exit.

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📱#exvangelical approaches 1B impressions

I opened TikTok today, and the current impressions for the #exvangelical hashtag stand at 985M views. It is on track to surpass 1 billion impressions in September 2022. I wrote about it on Twitter, where the hashtag started - and the rest of the thread is below: #exvangelical is on

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📱REAL LIFE | "Influencer Creep"

Real Life has become one of my favorite sites to read thoughtful pieces about how technologies affect us. In a recently published article, Sophie Bishop writes about how the norms and expectations that started with “influencers” have expanded to include all manner of work and labor. In a recent piece

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Twitter & The Counterpublic Sphere

As far as social networking sites that most people in my direct orbit don’t even use go, Twitter has played an outsized role in my life. In fact, it’s changed it many ways. Now Twitter itself is changing ownership, having been successfully purchased by the world’s richest