13. A move towards a capacity to
Live the questions, and view identity, place, placelessness,
blonging from new& unique perspectives
“Homeland is not an eternal value but a
function of a specific technology; still, whoever
loses it suffer. I fell into the error of
confusing my private self with the outside
world. It was only after I realized, painfully,
that these now severed attachments had
bound me that I was overcome by that strange
dizziness of liberation and freedom, which
everywhere characterizes the free spirit …All of us
nomads who have emerged from it share in
the collapse of settledness.”
{Flusser, The Challenge of the Migrant}

18. Connecting Dots Across
Disciplines=
thinking up
New Combinations &
Cross-Pollination of Ideas
“in order for us to truly create and
contribute to the world, we have to be able to
connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate
ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine
and recombine these pieces and build new
castles.” {maria popova}

21. Networked Knowledge
Combinational Creativity
Cross-Pollination
Exchange & Sharing

22. Moving beyond the norm

24. Global vs local

25. How we we Connect With increasingly
complex global community while still retaining sense of
self as individual ı

26. “I view locality as primarily relational and contextual rather than scalar or spatial. I see it as a
complex phenomenological quality, constituted by a series of links between the sense of social immediacy,
the technologies of interactivity, and the relativity of contexts”
( Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large, 1996, p. 178)

34.
Descriptions vs Immersions
A typewriter is a means
of transcribing thought, not
expressing it.ı
{Marhsall McLuhan}ı

36. Identity crises– using
online life as kind of platform, play with identity in
a kind of extended ‘identity creation workshop’.
BUT…
If virtual self is idealised or aspired self, then we
can lose track of the ‘self self’ ie the real self, or
who we were before the other selves took
precedence….

37. CLUTTER.
Of visual content
Sheer volume,
Response
Fun!

40. “black & white
Flat Static
Odorless-
Far removed from any
reality that they knew”
{Anthropologist edmund carpenter 1950s}

42. “Beyond the age of
information
is the age of
choices.”
{designer charles eames in 1971}
Omni-connectivity, consumers being always
on, does bring about the opportunity of
contextual content based on behaviour, time
and location.ı

49. Surprising new depths of connection
Enchantment intimacy / almost spiritual state
What james Joyce called ESTHETIC ARREST
A State in which the “mind is arrested & raised above desire and
loathing”
“the luminous silent stasis of esthetic
pleasure”
Or what the Italian physiologist Luigi Galvani called “the
enchantment of the heart.”
This has been called ‘deep & loose’ connection
. YouTubers can feel free to create or experience deep
relationships because they are loose, and they may
choose to keep them loose precisely because they are
deep.

51. Real Life {not abstraction}

53. Pain U&A Nigeria_Feb 2014

54. Pain U&A Nigeria_Feb 2014

56. But there is also the potential for creativity in our
digital days; making the technological into a malleable product
of creative expression
“to understand a social media profile,
think clothing meets bedroom wall. Having a "cool"
layout can be just as important as wearing the right
fashion label. Profiles are meant to show one's tastes,
values, and identity.”
Danah boyd, digital anthropologist
“Profiles are a way for to represent who they are to their larger peer group. Their choice in what to put
up there is a form of digital fashion. While we are accustomed to accessorizing our bodies when we go
out in public, there are no bodies online. We have to write ourselves into being, & use various
techniques for expressing ourselves.”

57. Combinations, compilations, connections

58. Si
mp
leGrowing , the things that have nostaliga for simpler
past pre-digital
authentic
xxx
“Apps this good, who’s
got time to make
friends?”
~ Macklemore & Ryan
Lewis

59. “Sharing the world’s first
visual language., global
library of icons
Aims to “simplify communication” on
global scale “across borders” . Translates
concepts into symbols
Synolising convepts into visuals. Visuals transcend the limitations of
language barriers- put to good use in community to help those unable to
read find food banks, locate recyclingservices ,etc
The noun project crowd sourced “iconathon”

61. Pain
U&A
Nigeria_Feb
2014
Sense of
connection
Fits in with wider
postindustrial changes in
societies – increased longing
for community & connection
whilst preserving sense of
individualism & independence.
=Connection without
constraint

62. Co
nn
ect
ion
s

63. New Ways to explore &
new places to go, going Off the Beaten Path

64. Growing , the things that have nostaliga for
connections past pre-
digital authentic
New ways of knowing
New ways of exploring
The unknown

65. Art blog jogging- anaonymous posting of art jpegs, only pushed off mian page when other entries
come along.
It’s an ephemeral amnesiac data flow, one that
swaps the art world’s market-driven frenzy for
networked global visibility.
Democratic
creativity “a ceaseless &
restless stream of information”

66. Slowing Down

67. “To derive one's happiness
from only specific moments
in time is to miss out on the
cosmic accident that is all of
life's moments."ı
- Wayne Coyne of The
Flaming Lips

68. Alternative record of time as
personal, individual, subjective,
time
Asynchronous, flexible constantly
renegotiated
• What constitutes time? What constitutes time in
past, present, future?
• Collective vs personalized time
• Time as malleable – compress vs stretch time
• Quantified vs subjective time
• Reconfiguring notions of time-space

69. iSOP: in search of personal time
{“an attempt to live unreal time in a real-time world”
“We are building personal timekeepers and new measurements for
moments based on individual perception of time. In this artistic
endeavor to questions the global synchronization and the
universal standard, we hope to facilitate a multitude of flows of
time.”
In changing how we formalize time, one could stretch the
present or – perhaps unfathomably – compress it. "Now,"
then, becomes a malleable space in which one can reorient
the relationship between memory, action, and possible
futures.

70. Criticised the linear notion of time, as fixed, homogenous, unchannging,
operaitng like assembly line- our calls, eating, sleeping habits all work wthin
this and we rely on this to define ‘order’ and provide structure, reason, and
purpose to our lives. “absolute time”
“popular perceptions of time have often been based in the idea that it is a fixed
medium in which events take place, rather than a dynamic contributing
factor”
“global synchronisation”
“we live in an era where the contmeporary world oeprates in terms
of global synchronisation. Things happen in real time and this
semblance of simultaneity, is a defining characteristc of value and
synonmy of efficiency.”
human experience as it is quantified gains currency at
the expense of human experience as it is felt.

71. Reflect personal perception of time rathern
than counting the 86,400 seconds in a day.
built microcomputer encassed in wood & handed a dozen out to
particants in la – got them to estimate what 1 miute was and ‘set’
each clock to that individiual’s own perception
Disrupting Time “it was like we were floating
somewhere else but not really belonging anywhere”
Taeyoon Choi and E Roon Kang disrupted/ ditchstandard time in favor
of a made-up alternative called "elsewhen." This imaginary time zone
would measure each passing minute not by the rotation of the earth
but by a person's perception of how much time has gone by.

72. And meanwhile time goes about its
immemorial work of making everyone look
and feel like shit."
“as soon as I pressed the button it made me more attentive
to what I was experiencing and observing in that moment."
Encouraged more self-relexion &
mindfullness/ engagement on time as
intangible and difficult to contain, hold,
own.
Instead, owning a sense of time
encouraged them to live in the moment
It also made the participants realise that
time is necessary to function in today's
world. But that doesn't mean you need
to be synchronous with everyone all the
time.

73. Change from ‘Red Bull to Raw
Energy Balls’
#slow living
{}

74. A move towards a capacity to
Live the questions, and view identity, place, placelessness,
blonging from new& unique perspectives
“Homeland is not an eternal value but a
function of a specific technology; still, whoever
loses it suffer. I fell into the error of
confusing my private self with the outside
world. It was only after I realized, painfully,
that these now severed attachments had
bound me that I was overcome by that strange
dizziness of liberation and freedom, which
everywhere characterizes the free spirit …All of us
nomads who have emerged from it share in
the collapse of settledness.”
{Flusser, The Challenge of the Migrant}

75. sha
ring
economy

76. fffı
“I view locality as primarily relational and contextual rather than scalar or
spatial. I see it as a complex phenomenological quality, constituted by a series
of links between the sense of social immediacy, the technologies of interactivity,
and the relativity of contexts”
( Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large, 1996, p. 178)
Global Vs. Local.

77. D.I.
WHY
?

78. DIY & CRAFTING
SHIFT FROM EXPRESSIONS OF INDIVIDUAL INTEREST/ SEARCH FOR STATUS OBJECTS/ OBJECTIS OF
CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION VALUE
NEW VALUE EXCHANGE – VALUE ON PROCESS & shared social interest NOT individual end
PRODUCT
PINTEREST- ‘INDIVIDIDUAL’ INTERESTS/ PINS, BUT PINNED TOGETHER ON ONE MASSIVE
GLOBAL MOOD BOARD- STRANDS OF CONNECTION THROUGH SHARED INTERESTS
Massive Growth: Pinterest from 5000 to over
70million users in just 5 years.

82. Growth in the DIY movement
“Steven Chu, an art director who goes by the name Chuubie, set up
a make-your-own-monster station. It could live on one of four
worlds: Courage, Lurve, Magik, or Adaptability.”
organizing events for grown-ups that ask them to
abandon their cynicism and see the world through the
eyes of a child- carefree joy & blissful curiosity
“In one of the bedrooms, three women constructed magic
wands out of pencils, pipe cleaners, stickers, and ribbon.”
“cupcake’s crown boutique…like a bespoke tailor with a glue
gun, glitter, and clothespins…everyone’s was unique.”

84. “The freedom all to be lords of or tiny skull-sized kingdoms,
alone at the centre of all creation. …. The really important
kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and
discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to
sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy
ways every day..
That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding
how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default
setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having
had, and lost, some infinite thing..” {David Foster Wallace}

85.
Adult Camp: Digital Detox,and Pre-
School masterclass, a weekly class
playing with glitter glue and having
naptime
Peter Pan market
sss
Pervasive interest for childhood

87. #summer camp fun
‘I went to adult summer camp and it was like a frat party
on Steriods’ “what makes it so special is the community. So intangible
you have to experience it yourself.”
More than 1million adults go to camp each year, looking to
relive their childhood memories or experience a summertime
tradition for the first time.
“Others are themed, Young Pros, where
20- to 30-year-olds can network
outdoors, and J-Weekend for Jewish
professionals. I opt for the Sports, Fun, &
Adventure two-and-a-half-day retreat,
which costs about $560 after tax”

88. Month long course, cost between 333-$999 ‘art
supplies, snacks, & class trips’ expenses not
included.
“When I arrived,
a tall bearded man dressed in drag greeted me and introduced himself as Cupcake, a recently
graduated master's student of queer theory and visual culture. He asked me what I was called as a
kid, and made me a name tag that read "Mimi."
Some students created abstract art with fingerpaint
while others molded Play-Doh into castles and sea
creatures.

89. “Steven Chu, an art
director who goes by the
name Chuubie, set up a
make-your-own-monster
station. It could live on
one of four worlds:
Courage, Lurve, Magik, or
Adaptability”.

90. “Stories are the way we live. They are what our
friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion
and rage, their yearning and their cry against
injustice.” {Andre Dubas}

91. Getting crafty

92. Current Craze
for Adult Colouring In Books
A major new industry & cultural shiftı
Trend seems to transcend age, gender, geographyı
Infantilizing? Escapist? Meditative? Connecting?
French publisher Hachette Pratique’s “Art-thérapie: 100
coloriages antistress have sold more than 3.4million copies
since 2012.
“An escape to the world of
inspiration & fulfilment”

94. “Instead of just creating one piece and
putting it on a gallery wall, each
piece gets a life that’s far more
extensive and far more lasting. The
idea that I’m presenting these drawings
to people all over the planet and
asking them to finish the drawing with
their own color, to me that’s incredibly
exciting.”
Steve McDonald ‘Invisible cities’ books’

95. “I went to 'preschool for
adults' and it was kind of
like Burning Man (minus
all the drugs and sand)”
{A month long program aimed to
‘connect nyers with their inner child’}

96. #summer camp fun
‘I went to adult summer camp and it was like a frat party
on Steriods’ “what makes it so special is the community. So intangible
you have to experience it yourself.”
More than 1million adults go to camp each year, looking to
relive their childhood memories or experience a summertime
tradition for the first time.
Others are themed, Young Pros, where
20- to 30-year-olds can network
outdoors, and J-Weekend for Jewish
professionals. I opt for the Sports, Fun, &
Adventure two-and-a-half-day retreat,
which costs about $560 after tax

97. Month long course, cost between 333-$999 ‘art
supplies, snacks, & class trips’ expenses not
included.
Some students created abstract art with fingerpaint
while others molded Play-Doh into castles and sea
creatures.
Steven Chu, an art director who goes by the name Chuubie, set up
a make-your-own-monster station. It could live on one of four
worlds: Courage, Lurve, Magik, or Adaptability.

100. What does it all mean???

101. Surprisingly popularity of
#Adult Summer
Camps
Inner child gets crafty

102. “When I arrived, a tall bearded man
dressed in drag greeted me and
introduced himself as Cupcake, a
recently graduated master's student
of queer theory and visual culture.
He asked me what I was called as a
kid, and made me a name tag that
read "Mimi.””

103. “When I arrived, a tall bearded man
dressed in drag greeted me and
introduced himself as Cupcake, a
recently graduated master's student
of queer theory and visual culture.
He asked me what I was called as a
kid, and made me a name tag that
read "Mimi.””

104. “Stories are the way we live. They are what our
friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion
and rage, their yearning and their cry against
injustice.” {Andre Dubas}

105. Part of the
Appeal is the tactile
nature .“eople are really excited to do something analog and
creative, at a time when we’re all so overwhelmed by
screens and the Internet,” she said.“And coloring is not
as scary as a blank sheet of paper or canvas. It’s a great
way to de-stress “
{johanna basford, global best seller, secret garden started the craze,
since relase of book in 2013, sold more than 2mil copies in 22
countries, and for a while was 1st- and follow up 2nd- on the nyt book
list}ı
New &
notable leaf:;
Chinese graphic book
{without words} in
middle of metropolis,
Finding captivating
Leaf in otherwise
grey industrial world
The

106. Ideas as social currency
We can still ‘make sense’ of a visual image and make it complete/ tie the fragments into a
cohesive comprehension

107. Ideas Industry:
intellectual revolution
“The only thing that kept me from going crazy was
immersion in the world of ideas,” was the only place you
could come to where you could hear people from all these
different disciplines and understand what they were saying.
[I told them how] inspiring that was, and how important
that was."
EG Ted’s ‘ideas worth spreading’- operates in 3000 cities,
lectures viewed more than 2.5billion times
SUDDENLY COOL TO BE INTO THE THINGS THAT PREVIOUSLY WERE
‘NERDY’
“cupcake’s crown boutique…like a bespoke tailor with a glue
gun, glitter, and clothespins…everyone’s was unique.”

108. Ideas are now more important than processes
More-than-human-Lab:
Combines creative research methods, science and technology studies, multispecies
ethnography, and more-than-human geography to explore different ways of being
in, with, and for the world

109. New Ways of Thinking, Making, &
Doing for the human world by taking inspiration form
the non-human world
More-than-human-Lab:
Combines creative research methods, science and technology studies, multispecies
ethnography, and more-than-human geography to explore different ways of being
in, with, and for the world
Have you ever wondered what design research could be if it wasn’t focused on products or people?
What would you do if your collaborators were animals, vegetables or minerals?

110. More than Human Multi-Species Ethnography
“Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of
canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.”
— Carol Emshwiller,
New creative research technologies & empirically-grounded
models
- Reimagining technology and design A fundamental shift
grounded on interconnectedness and interdependence of
humans and more-than-humans: animals and plants;
land, water and air; materials, processes and
artefactss
- Creative ethnography that demolishes boundary between
nature & culture

111. Designing ideas for interspecies communication &
connection
“animals enrich our ignorance”
— donnah harrahway , when species meet
I approach hardware, code and algorithms as non-human
actors that are capable of having agency and expressing
subjectivity, similar to worker bees in hive or a flock of
pigeons. My research involves designing protocols for a
network capable of connecting human and non-human nodes
equally, and enabling forms of inter-species communication
and interaction.”
Looking at people and technology and design and everyday life with — and through — animals

112. More than Human Multi-Species Ethnography
“Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of
canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.”
— Carol Emshwiller,
. THE internet of Things promises to connect billions of objects to the Internet, and this project imagines
possible futures where NZ Merino sheep become part of this network. Combining ethnographic fieldwork and
speculative design, multiple scenarios for the production and consumption of NZ Merino were created and public
responses to them assessed. The results highlight the cultural, political and ethical stakes when animals join
the Internet of Things

113. New forms of “sensory ethnography”
e.G networking of bees, pigs in cyberspace
“My project explores public concerns about animal agriculture and will work with Wairarapa-based Longbush
Pork to conduct a case study of their social media use, and co-design videos for public exhibition and
engagement.”
I approach hardware, code and algorithms as non-human
actors that are capable of having agency and expressing
subjectivity, similar to worker bees in hive or a flock of
pigeons. My research involves designing protocols for a
network capable of connecting human and non-human nodes
equally, and enabling forms of inter-species communication
and interaction.”

114. Since 2005, strangers have been drawing,
painting, collaging their inner most
secrets and sending them Anonymously to
Frank Warren’s post secret project

115. A remarkable story in collective
compassion Charting in Visceral detail,
what it means to be human
“Secrets can take many forms.
They can be shocking or silly or
soulful. They can connect us with
our deepest humanity, or with
people we’ll never meet.”

116. w
o
rk
for
love/
Ann
ual Ra
ce
7
GOING SLOW

117.
Challenging perceptions of space , & distance
Liberating ideas
Concepts
Thoughts
From static to 3d lived space
Realities
and using these creations to
‘build’ cultures

118. Call for more self-aware relationship with our
digital lives = reflected in growing trend for
‘mindful’ living/ authentic forms of connection to
ourselves & to others.

119. Exmpahsis on Lived experiences &
active participation
Experiencing the world through the
‘haptic’– through touch, not just
through the skin, but touching it
through other senses-‘touching with
our eyes, our gaze, our sense of smell and
“touching it with your mind”
“we can never really touch the
present because as soon as it is
here, it is gone”
{Brazilian artist, Ernesto Neto}
mixing the sensorial with the cerebral
alongside scale variations from the
miniscule to the vast,

120. Collective experiences = Response to Paradox
of choice & information overload= ‘back to
basics’ crafting, cooking, living
Tangible
Reasonable
Predictable pace-
something rarely seen in digital life

121. Response to Paradox of choice & information
overload= ‘back to basics’ crafting, cooking,
living
Tangible
Reasonable
Predictable pace-
something rarely seen in digital life

123. Looking for deeper
layers of reality
One day it will have to
be officially admitted
that what we have
christened reality is an
even greater illusion
than the world of
dreams.” {Salvador
Dali}ı

124. The growth of going slow
-Seeking out conscious fulfilment –food, leisure activities,
methods of social interaction,
-Change of mindset
-Emphasis on community outreach/connection
-Slow Living, mindul not nonchalent
PWC estimate 5 main sharing economies will be worth ı

125. • Airbnb
• Lyft
• Uber
• Taskrabbit
Sharing Economy: disrupters for a new
economy
Underscored by transactional relationships,
the Sharing economy works on supply&demand
basis. It depends on someone with excess
product/service/capacity to offer that to
others in need of it- e.g. a spare room
{airbnb} or a few hours use of a portable
drill {taskrabbit}

126. • -Slow Food Movementı
• Knittingı
• Sourdough bread…ı
Slowing down
SHariNG
ECoNoMY/
“understanding the pleasures of knitting or
weeding or making pickles might articulate
the value of that world outside electronic
chatter and distraction, and inside a more
stately sense of time”
{rEBECCA sOLNIT}
SLOWING DOWN TO REGAIN CONTACT, COMMUNICATION. SLOW =
AUTENTIC= BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH PRODUCTS AND PEOPLE

127. 6% Britons now participating in it {Uber, Airbnb
and Etsy) in order to supplement their income. =
2million people
& can make substantial sums- 1 in 5 of those
people, around 400,000 people – are earning
more than £500 a week {According to Intuit’s
research}.
And 3% – around 60,000 people – say they’re
making more than £78,000 a year.
Etsy, the marketplace for handmade goods, is the
most popular sharing economy platform with
Britons, followed by the ride-share app Uber, and
the peer-to-peer lending service Zopa.
h

128. A move towards a capacity to
Live the questions, and view identity, place, placelessness,
blonging from new& unique perspectives
“Homeland is not an eternal value but a
function of a specific technology; still, whoever
loses it suffer. I fell into the error of
confusing my private self with the outside
world. It was only after I realized, painfully,
that these now severed attachments had
bound me that I was overcome by that strange
dizziness of liberation and freedom, which
everywhere characterizes the free spirit …All of us
nomads who have emerged from it share in
the collapse of settledness.”
{Flusser, The Challenge of the Migrant}

129. Ideas as social currency
We can still ‘make sense’ of a visual image and make it complete/ tie the fragments into a
cohesive comprehension

132. Human communication is ‘intersubjective’
stories form a bridge between groups…
human communication cannot be reduced to
information. The message not only involves, it is,
a relationship between speaker and hearer. The
medium in which the message is embedded is
immensely complex, infinitely more than a code:
it is a language, a function of a society, a culture,
in which the language, the speaker, and the
hearer are all embedded
Live, face-to-face human communication is not
mechanical, and machine-mediated, but
interactive.
It is also active, continuous, and mutual- an
interchange between paritesIntersubjectivity is
mutual.
“it is a continuous intersubjectivity that goes both
ways all the time”

133. “I don’t trust theories
I only trust alongisde others in their moments
of experiences {mattjackson kauffman}
Experience new currency of trust

134. Creating Conversations through
#Hashtags
{named children’s favourite word
of the year in 2015}

135. New voices connecting
across difference.
‘coming out on facebook: 800 000 changed gender to gender neutral/custom
Amount of people coming out ‘on facebook’ – using the social media as communicative
platform is x3 than j
26million changed profile picture to
rainbow filter
Of those ‘out’ on facebook, 78% changed profile information to reflect this in years
followings 2012
5.7mil americans fans of 300 most popular lgbt pages on facebook {fans increased 25%

138. & Adapting the
narrative cross-
culturally
.

140. E.G. Redesigning
google
delivering the right content
in the right space
for the right people
“We look forward to seeing how today’s changes help kick-start even more
conversations around everything from Zombie Cats to Vintage Calculators”
Google
Community & Connections: content channels to
target specific demographics

141. Unilever teaming up with Vice: content
channels to target specific demographics
“A different way of working,
recognizing this is an audience
that engages with content in a
different way.”
unilever
New ways of working: delivering content
relevant to audience & appropriate for brand

142. Pinterst
delivering the right content
in the right space
for the right people
“We look forward to seeing how today’s changes help kick-start even more
conversations around everything from Zombie Cats to Vintage Calculators”
Google
Community & Connections: content channels to
target specific demographics

145. “We have been awash in a steadily increasing tide
of information for the past century….a total
reconfiguration of information itself”

146. Combinations, compilations, connections

147. New Ways to explore &
new places to go, going Off the Beaten Path

154. Democracy of information means new forms of
value: participation & wider
#access
• Passive audience replaced by active.
Participation expected & DESIRED
Co-Creation, Peer Production
Convergence Culture

156. “Sharing the world’s first
visual language., global
library of icons
Aims to “simplify communication” on
global scale “across borders” . Translates
concepts into symbols
Synolising convepts into visuals. Visuals transcend the limitations of
language barriers- put to good use in community to help those unable to
read find food banks, locate recyclingservices ,etc
The noun project crowd sourced “iconathon”

158. New Storytelling for the
Internet’s DIGITAL
NATIVES We are all storytellers. Our online lives read like extended mediation
on experiencing life today..
Narratives inked not by linear narrative, but as fragments- reflecting our multiple lives today. .
Linked themes or connections- travel, identity, ambitions, fears – presence. What binds these pieces
together is our way of seeing & of trying to make sense of what is seen. .
it would be a mistake to try to puzzle out a plot that remains always slightly submerged
here. What matters is how we see – and therefore ‘make sense’ of our world with our very
visual online presence.

166. We occupy different worlds and
behave differently with
different people, in different
moments, at different times and
different that world -

168. Creating connections:
# iftar
#Ramadan Problems: Fosters sense of community across Muslim
and non-Muslim groups: e.g Memes raise awarenss of Ramadan
fasting in the wider population – such as a meme tagged
"OMG you fast for 30 days straight? don't you die?". Non-
Muslims have also joined in with their own funny tribulations
of Ramadan, such as: "Trying to eat a massive meal before
you meet your Muslim friends so you don't get hungry while
you're with them".

175. e.g. Humans of New York
New forms of Story
xxx
“We understand each entry as something snatched from
right here, from someplace culturally adjacent, if
not identical, to the watcher’s world; there’s a sense
(and, given Stanton’s apparent tirelessness, a
corresponding reality) that this could just as easily
be you, today, beaming out from the open windowpane
of someone else’s news feed. {new yorker}