Quotes about "Social Media & Online Culture"

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain. ”

The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews. ”

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities. ”

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry. ”

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives. ”

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy. ”

You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world. ”

I'd like to keep a bit of my life my own, so I'm not publicizing my whole life on social media and stuff. ”

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist. ”

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. ”