Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
It is alleged that social media fuels polarization, exploits human weaknesses and insecurities, and creates echo chambers where everyone gets their own slice of reality, eroding the public sphere and the understanding of common facts. And, worse still, this is all done intentionally in a relentless pursuit of profit.
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Are we in a mid-life social crisis or finally going post-social?
This @dazed deep dive by @t.s.waite covers where we are and what could be next, with ideas from August Lamm, Josh Citarella, the Dark Forest Collective, Metalabel, and Yancey Strickler sprinkled in.
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instagram.comRather than hold on to technostalgia for a time when it wasn’t this bad, sometimes it is worth asking what it would take to uninvent social media, so that we can chart a course for the web we want—a web that promotes democracy, knowledge, care, and equity. Otherwise, every unexplained decision by tech companies about access to information... See more