Collin G Brooke
@cgbrooke
I’m a rhetoric professor in upstate NY.
Collin G Brooke
cgbrooke.substack.com
people keep coming back to social media because they help us do something that makes us distinctively human: create, revise, and maintain our identities to gain social status. Social media allow people to present different versions of themselves, monitor how others react to those versions, and revise their identities with unprecedented speed and ef
... See moreChris Bail • Breaking the Social Media Prism
But there remains also the truth that every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning; this beginning is the promise, the only “message” which the end can ever produce. Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identical with man’s freedom. Initium ut esset homo creatus est— “that
... See moreThink of the story of the death of truth as the story of two pernicious algorithms. One, unleashed by Section 230, allowed the social media platforms to recommend the content, however divisive or false, most likely to attract attention. The second set of algorithms are operated by what have become multibillion-dollar businesses you probably have ne
... See moreSteven Brill • The Death of Truth
The growth in extremism and terrorism is the flip side of ICT (information and communications technology) development. This is the other price that humankind pays for successful Silicon Valley startups.
Andrey Miroshnichenko • Human as Media. The Emancipation of Authorship
Intuitionism and the rejection of evidence and expertise are especially compatible with conservative populism.
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young • Wrong
Proximity and
Gamergate announced our new era, of American life shaped by social media’s incentives and rules, from platforms just beyond the outskirts of mainstream society.
Max Fisher • The Chaos Machine
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell
the imaginary waxes while the symbolic wanes.
Anna Kornbluh • Immediacy
The effect of conspiracy culture is the opposite of calm; it is to spread panic.