[Ads-l] New sense of "story"

[Laurence Horn]

The iPhone never says it’s a happy memory…

But it (the latter) does seem like a good premise for a country song.

LH

> On Jul 3, 2024, at 5:33 AM, Stanton McCandlish <smccandlish at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> I detest those things. Not just for the "new memory" word salad, but
> because it's always either making me sad by showing me someone who died, or
> making me irritated by showing a particular ex I'd rather never see a pic
> of again. I had to spend hours going through Google Photos to expunge
> photos of the latter entirely, to stop being algo-spammed with pictures of
> her every week.  I'm tempted to just spend a day recovering all the pics I
> do want to keep from GP, then deleting everything off their server.  But
> I'll have to undertake a similar sweep to stop Facebook from doing
> essentially the same thing.
> 
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 10:54 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> Indeed. Still, not as creepy as those AI-generated curated “Memories” your
>> phone provides you with, alerting you to the fact with the notification
>> “You have a new memory”.
>> 
>> 
>> LH
>> 
>>> On Jul 2, 2024, at 12:59 PM, dave at wilton.net <dave at WILTON.NET> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Apologies if this has been covered here before, but I've just become
>> cognizant (in that I knew it existed but didn't think of it as
>> linguistically significant) of a relatively new (i.e., a little more than a
>> decade old) sense of "story," that of a curated, often automatically
>> curated by an algorithm or AI, ephemeral series of personal pictures and
>> videos on a particular subject, theme, or time period.
>>> 
>>> It got it's start with "Snapchat Stories" back in 2013:
>>> 
>>> "Snapchat Launches Stories, 12-Hour Photo and Video Sharing."
>> FierceMobileContent, 3 October 2013. ProQuest Trade Journal.
>>> 
>>> "Snapchat is expanding beyond its signature here-and-gone media sharing
>> philosophy with the introduction of Stories, a new timeline feature
>> enabling users to compile photos and videos that may be viewed an unlimited
>> number of times over a 24-hour period.
>>> 
>>> "Snapchat enables users to capture images (a.k.a. "snaps") and clips
>> with their smartphone, overlay a text message and transmit the image to
>> friends. In the past, content was available to the recipient for a
>> pre-determined viewing period between just one and 10 seconds, and then
>> permanently deleted from both smartphones and from Snapchat's servers.
>> Stories lends some permanence to the Snapchat experience."
>>> 
>>> Instagram added a "stories" feature a couple of years later. Now my
>> Android phone has started automatically generating "stories" from my cached
>> photos and videos and setting them to cheesy music for me to view and post
>> should I choose to do so. The word has gone from the name of a
>> trademarkable feature on a specific product to generic noun for a whole
>> class.
>>> 
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