the techno-social environment
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters
the techno-social environment
Clicks and Conflict
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Algorithmic media companies exploit the difference between our attentional instincts and aspirations. In so doing, they make it harder for us to become who we might wish to be.
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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
Digital computers are fundamentally disconnected from the world; they are operating entirely on the abstraction of it. They are being fed pictures of the world. It is like someone living in a box and knowing the world only through photos of it. It is two fundamentally different things. It is incredibly easy to manipulate, and incredibly reductive.... See more
Karl Ove Knausgaard • The Reenchanted World
A “mirror-world” we’re all contributors to re-producing.
the platform paradox. The elements of our digital personality should belong to us, but the digital account itself – our digital persona specific to this platform – is an unalienated part of the platform.
Andrey Mir • The platform paradox
A specific state of connectivity is not transportable; therefore, it factually belongs to the platform.
Andrey Mir • The platform paradox
When digital media reversed cognitive detachment into situational immersion, it set off other reversals. The structured, fixed world built by literacy reversed into a “natural” flow: the newsfeed pouring into our devices. The flow has no structure or completeness, typical of literacy. As soon as structuring, selection, and completeness are
... See moreAndrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
We have changed our environment enough that our current ways of understanding what’s going on no longer hold: technology and globalization have changed our information streams and our patterns of life drastically enough that the ways we calibrate around incoming information are becoming increasingly dangerous for us, and this trend will only... See more
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
Significance is subjectivity married to collectivity.