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How Social Media Is Teaching Us To Emphasize The What Over The Why

 June 16, 2018

Social media’s fixation on realtime and short context-free communications that reward meme-worthy virality over informed conversation and deep understanding is reshaping our society to emphasize the what over the why.

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