digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
Why is the manosphere so successful?
I sometimes make the metaphor that everything's become pornography. Extreme content feels like political pornography, and a lot of Instagram feels to me like emotional pornography. It's this feeling that whatever is going to drive your most basic, most primal emotional responses, that's what will get engagement.... See more
I sometimes make the metaphor that everything's become pornography. Extreme content feels like political pornography, and a lot of Instagram feels to me like emotional pornography. It's this feeling that whatever is going to drive your most basic, most primal emotional responses, that's what will get engagement.... See more
David Gilbert • Louis Theroux on the Manosphere: ‘It’s Highly Profitable to Be a Dick on the Internet’
the “ecological” effects of media—its “terraforming power” to change the human environment and so human behavior and society.
Martin Gurri • The Fifth Wave: Andrey Mir Takes on World History
“To say that any technology or extension of man creates a new environment is a much better way of saying the medium is the message. Moreover this environment is always invisible and its content is always the old technology.”
3 Reversal
Political and cultural struggles have moved onto the new media hardware and embraced its settings. Since the main effect of digital media, particularly social media platforms, has been to catalyze self-expression, the cultural, political, and economic significance of identity claims has skyrocketed.
Andrey Mir • My new book: The Viral Inquisitor and Other Essays on Postjournalism and Media Ecology
Media are the hardware of society—the hardware has evolved from expressing ideas to centering on identities. The software—our culture—has followed suit. Identity politics mirrors the development of media, reflecting its cultural consequences.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
Much of what we do is immediately authenticated as we do it, stored as data, classified or scored on some sort of scale, and deployed in real time to modulate some outcome of interest – usually, the behaviour of a person, or a machine, or an organisation.
The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays
... See moreInfluencers are opinion leaders with the power to influence what people believe or buy and the capacity to shape sentiment and norms within their niche. They innately understand how to connect with others in a digital age, developing intimate trusted relationships with their followers, yet are also capable of achieving reach commensurate with mass
we run into problems precisely when we start treating technology as an end rather than a means to an end. This is not to say that we can’t be legitimately impressed with technical achievements on their own terms, of course, or admire the skill that makes them possible. But we do well to also judge technologies according to the greater ends they... See more