digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
In the philosophical framework of Louis Althusser, the concept of interpellation, often referred to as hailing, is described as a general and subconscious mechanism through which ideological systems present individuals with specific identities, which they are encouraged to embrace.
Neural Interpellation
Attention becomes the only metric by which culture is judged, and what gets attention is dictated by equations developed by Silicon Valley engineers.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
A key method of ‘understanding media’ in the McLuhan tradition is: by examining the nature of the form, you can gain insight into the nature of the effect, and that the place to begin in examining the nature of the form is by tracing it back to its human origin.
Joseph Reid • Reading, and Understanding Media
The internet's infinite private worlds at times feel more like the clan-based societies that predated individualism. But where past worlds were bound by blood, today’s are bound by interests, desires, identities, and what the algorithms governing these spaces — helmed by capitalistic KPIs —nudge us to do.
Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual
The overall digital environment is dictated by tech companies with ruthlessly capitalist, expansionary motives, which do not provide the most fertile ground for culture. While the magazine fashion editor may periodically use their ability to pick out and promote a previously unheard voice, the algorithmic feed never will; it can only iterate on
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
If there is one thing the advent of social media has brought home to us, it is how little we think for ourselves.
Ian Leslie • How To Be Influenced
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
Over the twentieth century, almost all scientific and philosophical disciplines discovered ecology, which is the simple idea that everything is interrelated, that it is impossible to study any phenomenon in isolation, because it impacts, and is impacted by, everything around it. This applies to physics as much as biology, in the discovery of the... See more
Book
James Bridle
What defines orality as a cognitive and cultural trait is not vocal performance, but its opposition to literacy, which forms the dichotomy “environmental/tribal immersion vs. detachment.” Similar to the condition of primary orality, digital media enable environmental immersion.