The Multiplayer Internet needs a Gradient of Presence. We c...

The Multiplayer Internet needs a Gradient of Presence. We can be: ... Alone in Alone Spaces Alone in Together Spaces Together in Alone Spaces Together in Together Spaces but the presence is a spectrum: Lean In (Dominant) Leank Back (Ambient)

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This customization made possible by our “always-online society” can also have negative effects: people have become more prone to becoming anxious when either physical or virtually disconnected from others and it puts us all in a state of mutual surveillance. So, on the one hand, there is the feeling of always wanting to be connected to somebody, an... See more

404 - e-flux

What I’ve come to realize is that while our potential identities are infinite, our energy is not. Energy put into one identity is energy taken from another. To be Very Online is to be Never Offline. To become infinite is to become infinitesimal somewhere else. As Turkle wrote in The Second Self :

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The Post-Individual

"Context collapse": the issue of not having a platform unique to them (to avoid overlap with parents, coworkers, etc.) While they have always been online, they may or may not have other tech skills.

Weston Public Library • Because Internet

As more and more identity formation happens online, it’s is inevitable that most of it happens in private spaces. As we spend more and more time living in these spaces, it’s inevitable that their intentional shaping should become more important to us. As more and more internet-first communities choose to build the means for themselves to live, it i... See more

Toby Shorin • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool

Despite the fact that humans are wired for collaboration, single-player is our default mode of operation. Single-player game mechanics are baked into our infrastructures and platforms; in Western cultures, they’re baked right into society itself — school, social life, you name it. Everything has been designed with the mechanistic worldview in mind;... See more

Keely Adler • Multiplayer Futures

We’ve lost gradients of intimacy, a concept from architecture, the ability to loiter and meander through a space, engaging when we want in varying levels of expression. We don’t have any peripheral vision on the internet. We have to be in one place or the other. Simultaneously, we’re never really in any place—we can always blame connection issues a... See more

Spencer Chang • tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets

How we behave in real life with other people present vs how we behave in a digital context.

“Separating my identities on Twitter does not mean a lesser experience, but a far superior one; social interaction in any medium is always a balance between self-expression and the accommodation of others, which means that in the analog world it is a constant struggle to strike a balance between being myself and annoying everyone around me at some