Form-From: A Design Space of Social Media Systems
As long as there are new technology platforms, types of media content, and shifting user behaviors, there will continue to be opportunities to build massive networks with complexity at their core. The ones that fundamentally alter some of the core components of a complex network can create really interesting and novel product experiences.
Matthew Hartman • Complexity in Social Networks
how these systems might be redesigned with the opposite intention of “bridging” the crowd.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The above problems with social media in turn generate massive costs for platforms, in the form of gigantic moderation teams made of tens of thousands of people, severe damage to platforms’ brands, and openings for competition to find more efficient means for distributing content. And no platform has been better at exploiting the weaknesses of socia... See more
Michael Mignano • The End of Social Media and the Rise of Recommendation Media
The affordances of different types of online space change how information is produced, circulated, and remembered across platforms. What happens when platforms enable the archival of information? What happens when they encourage collective experiences versus personal, inward-facing ones?