huntress - The Monday Morning Memo

This Parisian huntress stalks her prey after dark.

“Ms. Papacharissi said that in her 20 years of researching and interviewing people about online behavior, one conclusion has remained consistent: people use the internet to get more of what they do not get enough of in everyday life. So while people have been socialized to resist being impulsive in the real world, on the internet they cave to their temptations to lash out. ‘The internet becomes an easy outlet for us to shout something and feel for a moment fulfilled even though we’re really just shouting out into the air,’ she said.”

- Brian X. Chen, New York Times, Aug. 8, 2018, speaking of Zizi Papacharissi, a professor of communication at the University of Illinois-Chicago

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