Platform Literature w/ Sarah Brouillette and Aarthi Vadde
In our moment, when no one has the time or support to read anymore, social media platforms step in as a creative and community-building outlet. But the problem is, our self-expression and creativity isn’t entirely our own—its the platforms’.
Bibliography
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Brouillette, Sarah. Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era. Duke UP, 2026.
Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin, 2004.
Vadde, Aarthi. We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First Century Literature. Columbia UP, 2026.
