Formulary for New Media
New Media is opinionated about the internet’s infinite scale . It chooses to reject or play with the internet’s scale, opting to be handmade, limited quantity, or geared towards small groups of people who actively choose to receive it. New Media is not something to be fished from a stream, but a sacred pilgrimage one may embark upon.
Yancey Strickler • Formulary for New Media
We are bored on the internet. We’re wearied from raindancing for the algorithms that manipulate our attention. We’re exhausted from every interaction selling us things we did not ask for and that do not inspire enthusiasm, mystery, joy.
We long for something deeper, richer, more surprising. Not “I see what you did... See more
instagram.com- The future of internet media is less, but better. Time and attention are precious, finite resources. How we spend them determines the quality of our lives. We believe media practitioners have a responsibility to treat time and attention as sacred, refusing to churn out commoditized filler content or algorithmic bait, and instead only ask for