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Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Highlight

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Anthropologist Michael Wesch uses the term “context collapse” to describe how YouTube’s wide reach affects how people present themselves online. Instead of having in-person interactions, which occur within a specific context, YouTube creators experience “an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording.”

— Nadia Eghbal

Replicated under Fair Use from Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal.