All about social networks

Yuka Shiratsuchi (白土由佳『はじめてのソーシャルメディア論』, Sanwa Shoseki, 2024, p. 60) defines social media by three elements: many-to-many communication premised on exposure and observation, individually optimized diversity of experience, and accumulation of digital footprints.

In preparing for change, many of us talk about decentralisation (or "decent" for short) but that's an abstract word that fails to evoke just how thoroughly political a project it is. There is no technical solution that can produce decentralisation on its own; decentralisation cannot be technosolutionist and succeed at the same time. The "decent"... See more

It was striking how many of Elon’s early tweets about Twitter’s issues seemed to pin Twitter’s underperformance on engineering problems. Response times, things of that nature. But Twitter’s appeal was never a pure feat of engineering, nor were its problems solely the fault of engineering malpractice. They were human in nature. Twitter isn’t, as... See more