#CURSE THE SOCIAL MEDIA ISSUE
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“Technology has really democratized self expression. Instead of a handful of people making their own records or writing their own songs, everybody can write them. Everyone can post a poem on the internet and have people read it. Everyone has accessan access that they never had before” - PATTI SMITH
THE INTERNET, AS YOU’VE probably realized, isn’t just for sharing knowledge anymore. We post pretty personal stuff online now, too: photos of ourselves sitting on the toilet and drinking a beer, thoughts that exploit our loneliness, last-ditch efforts to incite a potential romance. And while we continue to toy with the limits of over-sharing through social media, we end up manipulating our interactions IRL. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and I guess Vine now, too-- they’re all making us a little weird. We’re deseparate to validate our fleeting sentiments, our breakfasts. But it’s not all bad; there’s a whole lot of Internet worth accessing, a plethora of ideas worth sharing and infinite collaborations worth initiating. So if you think the Internet is fascinating, terrifying, fruitful, draining or isolating, you’ll probably find something relatable in here. -RR
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CURSE is an independently published non-fiction magazine out of Western Mass. It encourages conversation about local and global ideas through Op/Eds, interviews, art and photography.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS SIX
CURSEplaylist JAMIE ROTH
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paul bergmann interview RACHAEL ROTH
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music television / CHRIS VILLON
FOURTEEN pantheon of friends WILLIAM VAN
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EIGHTEEN using twitter for good NICOLE NIHAN
TWENTYONE home sweet home DAN NOTT
TWENTYFOUR kait brink doesn’t like squares DIANA WALDON
TWENTYEIGHT amateur hour RACHAEL ROTH
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