digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
collective effervescence : a heightened emotional state resulting from simultaneous social participation. Just as singing gospel music can bring about a deeper connection to God, so too can participating in a meme or TikTok trend.
you're literally worshipping your phone
To think critically about artistic and media driven experiences means recognising interpellation while it is happening and becoming aware of the range of identities offered by a specific piece of technology, media or art.
Neural Interpellation
We are pantomiming our ideas and convictions rather than living them.
The Trad Movement Is Sputtering. Here’s What Comes Next
But it is not clear whether such systems – even if they work as advertised – can solve the problem of reliable knowledge in a balkanised public sphere. Just as commercial incentives led to fake content and filter-bubbles, LLMs likely face the same pressures in a world of sharply diminishing returns. Because the firms training them desperately need... See more
The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays
The result is that increasingly capable technologies are going to be a fundamental part of 21st-century life. They mediate a growing number of our deeds, utterances and exchanges. Our access to basic social goods — credit, housing, welfare, educational opportunity, jobs — is increasingly determined by algorithms of hidden design and obscure... See more
Jamie Susskind • Digital Technology Demands A New Political Philosophy | NOEMA
Writing—especially phonetic writing—cut off words from objects and actions and turned them into abstractions detached from situational needs. With this semantic detachment, the mind itself withdrew from the “here and now” and opened up to abstract thinking and contemplation.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
On social media, passive audiences of the literacy era reversed into participants expressing thoughts and emotions as in oral communication. Algorithms track their preferences through countless identity markers. The entire design is built to reward identity signaling.