digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
The only way to stand out in this miasma has been appeals to identity and power.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
As Sean Illing, a co-author of “The Paradox of Democracy,” told me, “McLuhan says: Don’t just look at what’s being expressed; look at the ways it’s being expressed. And then Postman says: Don’t just look at the way things are being expressed; look at how the way things are expressed determines what’s actually expressible.” In other words, the... See more
Ezra Klein • I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
What strikes me most is the difference between people who’ve learned to construct what I call ‘containers for attention’ – bounded spaces and practices where different modes of engagement become possible – and those who haven’t. The distinction isn’t about intelligence or discipline. It’s about environmental architecture. Some people have learned... See more
Vercel Security Checkpoint
media with edges
... See moreThe influencer's primary job is to grow an audience, a crowd of followers who will serve as eyeballs on the content as well as secondary distribution machine. Reach significantly determines to what extent the influencer makes money or accrues power, so the temptation to pepper content with the kind of bait that the algorithms will boost to a niche
This phenomenon in the insect world is known as stigmergy : a mechanism of indirect coordination, where each action leaves a “trace” that makes it easier for a succeeding action to occur.
Adam Aleksic • banality of the algorithm
Basically, a simulacrum is a representation that no longer has an actual referent; there’s no preexisting reality it refers to, it has become the reality itself.
The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality)
Imitation and counter-imitation constitute the core of society, ensuring its cohesion, discoveries and innovations, just as habits underlie individual, everyday lives, Tarde argued in The Laws of Imitation (1890),