Professional note-taking means filtering for audience relevance, not transcribing everything

Evidence

Surveillance capitalism’s command of the division of learning in society begins with what I call the problem of the two texts. The specific mechanisms of surveillance capitalism compel the production of two “electronic texts,” not just one. When it comes to the first text, we are its authors and readers. This public-facing text is familiar and celebrated for the universe of information and connection it brings to our fingertips. Google Search codifies the informational content of the world wide web. Facebook’s News Feed binds the network. Much of this public-facing text is composed of what we inscribe on its pages: our posts, blogs, videos, photos, conversations, music, stories, observations, “likes,” tweets, and all the great massing hubbub of our lives captured and communicated. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 584 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Article titles and abstracts serve as selective movie-preview summaries; Professional skill in text reproduction requires suppressing intellectual interest in content; Holding information shared across a group reads as expertise and confers influence — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 940 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Users author a public-facing text while surveillance capitalism captures a hidden second text #complicates (0.73) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 584