dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
The YouTube New Wave — The Publish Press
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this was incredibly thoughtful reporting on the future of media
ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our personal learning, but they are far from the communal gardens I grew up in that valued collective work and knowledge. Where are the digital
... See moreAnnika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
the digital spaces we want
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That private platforms such as Amazon’s Twitch, Twitter and Facebook now constitute the digital equivalents to public spheres is as much a political failure as one of our collective imagination.
Portable Multiplayer Miniverses • Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses
the internet is the greatest device for opening up the world ever devised. It is democratising and enabling. But that assumes its users draw on it to aid System 2 thinking. Plainly, there are times when we use it to inform key decisions – to find out about an illness, to research a holiday, to track a scientific breakthrough. But in the main the... See more
Will Hutton • We need a social media with heart that gives us time to think
Anyway, I don’t want to seem like I’m arguing that the internet of 2023 is “fine” or “healthy”--it’s obviously not. Rather, I’d like to make the case that the internet of 2010 (or wherever you would place the peak of “fun” internet) wasn’t particularly healthy or fine, either, and it’s easy to mistake a sense of ease and comfort under bad... See more
Max Read • Why the internet isn't fun anymore + A.I. and magic
this is something interesting…
