“Some people would talk about the way they enjoyed them, and how their enjoyment reduced over time,” she said. They were reexperiencing their time on the site, as one might after a trauma, but describing this with a sense of accomplishment. Norms about what should be shown on television and in newspapers — which Dr. Zelizer says have become more conservative — have given way to debates about tech platforms. Big social media platforms have inherited much of the rest of the web and it’s users — including the ones who might have spent time on a site like Ogrish. There are also a lot of videos about immigration, about how the media is attacking Donald Trump, about “political correctness” and about Islam.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2019 09:00 UTC