dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
As builders of a new digital society, we must be equipped with an even more inclusive and visionary concept of what "public" and "good" can mean.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
There are lots of layoffs, lots of budget cuts, lots of scary articles about how little books are selling, or whatever. I’d argue, however, that we’re in a moment of recalibration. A lot of the digital world isn’t working, not just as it pertains to media. The Internet writ large isn’t as fun as it used to be. Yet there is, I think, an awareness of... See more
make a space where you feel free to breathe…a space where you can invite others to do the same
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
There seems to be this general dissatisfaction with the internet from users, but there doesn't seem to be any real change in making the internet more fun. Do you see it getting better?
Embedded • How Taylor Lorenz Went From Tumblr Queen to Internet Historian
When facts are few, persuading the ignorant is relatively easy. But information abundance, already characteristic of early modern societies, engenders a degree of skepticism: The more there is to know, the more likely we feel that truth is elusive. Information super-abundance, or the condition of “digital plenitude,” as media scholar Jay David... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
what Antibionic.io is struggling with as I build it.
I think there is a mental health crisis amongst both journalists and artists, and I think that ad driven platform capitalism is largely responsible
Mat Dryhursttwitter.comour internet is bad for mental health. everyone feels this but, individuated, we comply for fear of retribution.
the practices that gave our lives purpose and meaning have been all but obliterated in search of attention
I myself write online of course and I will continue to do so but save for this essay, this latest contribution to the thousands of terabytes of jeremiads that festoon the worldwide web, I don’t have much to say about our online world anymore. I’m tired of it. Half an hour or so a day is ample time to catch up with my online community of people and... See more
Thomas J Bevan • The End of the Extremely Online Era - by Thomas J Bevan
The internet doesn’t have to demand our presence the way it currently does. It shouldn ’t be something we have to look at all time. If it wasn’t, maybe we’d finally be free to hang out. The first time I ever heard about Facebook, back in 2004, was from someone proudly declaring that she had just spent four hours using it. At the time, it was... See more
Drew Austin • It's Time to Lie Down and Be Counted
The web has an almost infinite capacity for storage and memory yet its prevailing use is an acceleration of ephemerality. The reasons for this are complex to say the least (of which financial short term gain is probably the most prevalent). But this doesn’t mean the tendency can’t be resisted. Perhaps books as well as their online siblings could
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