Reflecting on a Year of Writing and Learning on Medium
This essay marks the end of my year writing as a partner for Medium, it was a real pleasure to test new writing styles
Last year, I was given the opportunity to write for Medium for a year as a partner columnist. It’s been a wonderful adventure where I was able to post 50 pieces that stretched my writing skills (for better or for worse) and let me explore some new angles on somewhat academic-slash-public intellectual stories of the Internet Culture “beat.”
It seems fitting then that I write my final post as we near the end of the experiment we call mainstream social media. Zuckerberg’s sinking his Facebook ship by investing in a project that won’t be ready for a decade, Musk is spreading conspiracy theories on his new “free speech” takeover of Twitter, and YouTube is seemingly overflowing with far-right content. I’ve enjoyed writing about all of it until recently. Now it just feels so… grim.
As an academic, I don’t really have the opportunity to write to the public (if you will) as much as I’d like. Typically, academic writing is for a very small audience of peers who are interested in the same subject. And to be honest, it’s tough to write in the academic style. I love to write journal articles, but it takes a certain…
