Making the Internet Alive Again
A few years ago, a user by the name of IlluminatiPirate published Dead Internet Theory: Most of the Internet is Fake on the online forum Agora Road’s Macintosh Cafe.1 The theory proposes that the majority of the content with which we engage online is algorithmically generated by bots, all in an effort to control what we believe. I feel obligated to... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Making the Internet Alive Again
“Under algorithmic feeds, the popular becomes more popular, and the obscure becomes even less visible. Success or failure is accelerated.” — Kyle Chayka, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Gaby Goldberg • Making the Internet Alive Again
So, if the Internet has effectively become cable TV, what is the new information frontier?