The Rise of Cultural Negativity on the Internet

Derrick Thompson: I don't think i can easily prove the rise of cultural negativity with numbers. The internet has flattened three groups that used to exist on separate planes, alete institutions at the top, critics in the middle, and audiences at the bottom. Chuck closterman is a best selling author of several books, including an incredible history of the 19 nineties called simply the nineties. In this episode, we talk about how the real world changed our relationship to celebrity,. How television changes our relationship to reality, what's so special about the year two thousand three, and why cultural historians should care about niclache.