Twittering Machine They're the guards who roam

They're the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits

Fred Astaire

where she grew up

Czeslaw Milosz famously bore witness to its violence in his native Poland and in the war's aftermath from exile in Europe and the United States

Twittering Machine They're the guards who roamA brilliant probe into the political and psychological effects of our changing relationship with social media Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share. We write to the machine as individuals, but it responds by aggregating our fantasies, desires and frailties into data, and returning them to us as a commodity experience. The Twittering Machine