In the first article "The Art of Watching Databases," Geert Lovink writes about how Youtube has changed the way we act online and how we waste a lot of time on it. He mentions that we have so many choices which make us masters at multitasking and also have ADHD. Also we don't ever need to find anything, we just search it up.
The second article "The Practice of Everyday (Media)Life," by Lev Manovich is more of a how things evolved into what they are today. Manovich describes how people were going from mass consumption to mass cultural production though the two aspects of people being able to become the producers of internet content and the shift between having the internet a place of publishing to this new idea of a place of communication.
Both of Lovink and Manovich both see the difference of this new era. They see that now there are many choices for the internet and that there are more ways for people to sell themselves and their image, the idea of the mirror. However they both differ in the ways they present their ideas, Lovink talks about the Video Vortex project and bluntly characterizes what he sees while Manovich uses another source the book The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel De Certeau.
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