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   Erin Kissane (kissane@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 07:09:15 JST Erin Kissane

   Is there a canonical essay about (the problems with and complexities of) social media aggregation as journalism that I can just link to so I don't have to break down the angles and weirdnesses myself?

   There *has* to be, right?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 07:09:15 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @kissane are you talking about aggregation on a personal level, like when I bring my Instagram, Reddit and WordPress feeds all into Twitter?

     Or aggregation like when two or three big companies keep buying up the new startups?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 13:08:59 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @kissane "The Internet is Losing Its Collective Mind over Left Shark"

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     Erin Kissane (kissane@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 13:09:00 JST Erin Kissane

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan Oh no, I mean when journalists collect up a bunch of e.g. tweets and post them with a couple of paragraphs and call it a story. (Really I mean when editors assign this kind of story.)

     "Aggregate" is just how I've heard it talked about within journalism.