{"id":30972,"date":"2022-06-07T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/how-the-internet-turned-us-into-content-machines#id31943"},"modified":"2022-06-07T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T19:53:00","slug":"two-new-books-show-how-social-media-turned-humans-into-content-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/two-new-books-show-how-social-media-turned-humans-into-content-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Two new books show how social media turned humans into content machines."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Pop stars log their daily routines on TikTok. Journalists spout banal opinions on Twitter. The best-selling Instapoet Rupi Kaur posts reels and photos of her typewritten poems. All are trapped by the daily pressure to produce ancillary content&mdash;memes, selfies, shitposts&mdash;to fill an endless void.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/infinite-scroll\/how-the-internet-turned-us-into-content-machines\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/how-the-internet-turned-us-into-content-machines\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Pop stars log their daily routines on TikTok. Journalists spout banal opinions on Twitter. The best-selling Instapoet Rupi Kaur posts reels and photos of her typewritten poems. All are trapped by the daily pressure to pro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30973,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30972\/revisions\/30973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}