Twitter Quotes by Jenna Wortham

8 Twitter quotes by Jenna Wortham

Jenna Wortham’s tweets offer sharp observations on media and technology. In eight brief entries, she provides a clear, engaging perspective that feels both informed and accessible.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang…

Jenna Wortham

Image

Online, there is an irresistible social currency to being a user who has thousands of followers, who starts memes, who comes up…

Jenna Wortham

Image

Twitter, it can be said, completely changed the way activism is done, who can participate, and even how we define it.

Jenna Wortham

Image

Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into…

Jenna Wortham

Image

If anything, Twitter helps me read about perspectives outside of mainstream media and learn about new authors, artists, and ideas that I…

Jenna Wortham

Image

Social media might one day offer a dazzling, and even overwhelming, array of source material for historians.

Jenna Wortham

Image

As Twitter allows you to curate who shows up in your stream - you only see the people you follow or seek…

Jenna Wortham

Image

Social media seemed to promise a way to better connect with people; instead, it seems to have made it easier to tune…

Jenna Wortham

Image

Other authors on Twitter

More by Jenna Wortham

We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.…

Jenna Wortham

Image

Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by…

Jenna Wortham

Image

The speed with which modern society has adapted to accommodate the world's vast spectrum of gender and sexual identities may be the most important…

Jenna Wortham

Image

As we now know, cyberspace did not liberate human society from pre-existing socioeconomic hierarchies and power structures.

Jenna Wortham

Image

For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang out.

Jenna Wortham

Image

For all the advances in tech that let us try on various guises to play around with who we are, it seems that we…

Jenna Wortham

Image

Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating…

Jenna Wortham

Image

When I visited my family in Virginia, I tracked down my seventh-grade best friend and sat in TGI Fridays near a mall for hours,…

Jenna Wortham

Image

People in tech love to see their work as embodying the 'hacker ethos': a desire to break systems down in order to change them.…

Jenna Wortham

Image

I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.

Jenna Wortham

Image

It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways to cope…

Jenna Wortham

Image

I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.

Jenna Wortham

Image

The types of ideas protected by intellectual-property law typically don't include a clever catchphrase on a Vine or a film idea in a tweet.

Jenna Wortham

Image

Online, there is an irresistible social currency to being a user who has thousands of followers, who starts memes, who comes up with an…

Jenna Wortham

Image

Someday, maybe we'll recognize that queer is actually the norm, and the notion of static sexual identities will be seen as austere and reductive.

Jenna Wortham

Image