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All about social networks
Supporting Hard Conversations in Close Relationships Through Design
The research explores how digital design can enhance the experience of navigating difficult conversations within close relationships, emphasizing the importance of consent, emotional regulation, and effective communication strategies.
amandabaughan.comSupporting Hard conversations w digital design
So right now, it’s like the sparkle and spectacle of the shininess of the internet, it’s started to fade, and we’re really aware in this moment of, you know, trash in the comments and crowds on the timeline and, you know, misinformation graffiti on the walls.
Unlike going to Substack to catch up on some newsletters (which as you know by reading mine, takes time) — TikTok unlocks rapid dopamine hits. Making it “an ideal app” to open up when you have even a minute of idle time.
Jaryd Hermann • ByteDance | TikTok: Origins, How They Grow, and The Future of The Internet
Social media forms are performative solo forms with an odd conflation of friendship and marketing; the body is alone in a room performing the self, with an undercurrent of desire for applause. Without a town square to gather in and hash out the day with neighbors, social media communications have a shading of loneliness underneath.
Maria Popova • The Choreography of Everyday Life: A Leaping Antidote to Our Modern Loneliness
One thing that complicates people’s willingness to devote their energy to vibrancy is context collapse, a term that Alice Marwick and I coined long ago. When a social media site grows slow and steady, it starts out for each user as a coherent context. Things get dicy over time as people struggle to figure out how to navigate divergent networks. But... See more