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"The comic lines that always landed right—and then the sudden turns in language and stagecraft that gently blew the heart open."
Virginia Heffernan, on the late, great Nora Ephron, at Yahoo! News.
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"In the end, these wily, protean images are just too hard to police."
Virginia Heffernan, on the hazards of banning so-called ‘thinspiration’ photos.
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Virginia Heffernan, author of Magic and Loss: The Pleasures of the Internet, moderates the “Is This Thing On?” panel at Sundance 2012. From the program: “Today’s always-on culture makes our definition of authentic quite elastic, like light being warped near a black hole. Where does privacy end and performance begin in a post-cinéma-vérité, perpetually plugged-in world?”
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NotesChanneling her inner McLuhan, Virginia Heffernan tells us that, for companies, user-generated content is hard work—you have to “scaffold the experience for the user so intensely.”
