The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
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The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
It’s normal to feel these emotions, and every consumer-facing company—in some way—taps into the negative emotions as well as the positive. Social networks, for instance, are as much about spreading kindness as they are about spreading malice. They are conduits for human communication, which runs the full spectrum of emotion. Both the good and the b... See more
Rex Woodbury • The Seven Deadly Sins of Consumer Technology
Keely Adler added
Social media acts as an emotional coordination layer, increasing the amplitude and frequency of culture. Jealousy, resentment, and fomo are more viral and powerful than ever, particularly when everyone is on their computer all day post-lockdown.
John Luttig • Finance as culture
Our continual connection to social media makes us prone to new forms of viral emotional effects. These are not media designed for calm reflection.
Robert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature
sari added
Though the data from such experiments are not fully available for public scrutiny, the evidence suggests that content-feed tweaks more easily generate negative emotions (e.g., vanity or paranoia) than positive ones (e.g., optimism or self-esteem). This is why social media is such a tempting tool for psychological warfare: It can be used to poison a... See more
Jaron Lanier • How to Fix Twitter—And All of Social Media
sari added
After a decade or so of the general sentiment being in favor of the internet and social media as a way to enable more speech and improve the marketplace of ideas, in the last few years the view has shifted dramatically—now it seems that almost no one is happy. Some feel that these platforms have become cesspools of trolling, bigotry, and hatred... ... See more
Mike Masnick • Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
sari added
These conditions can obviously manifest themselves in contexts far removed from online forums and social media. But a simulation of the experience of power, understood as the collapse of the space between impulse and act, may be more generalized in online environments where a forgetfulness of the body is also a default setting.
The interval of hesit
... See moreL. M. Sacasas • Pity, Power, and Presence
Andreas Vlach added
For one, social-media operators discovered that the more emotionally charged the content, the better it spread across its users’ networks.
Ian Bogost • The Age of Social Media Is Ending
