digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
The constant scrolling tells us that nothing is worth remembering, nothing is worth reflection, nothing is worth production because the act of consumption is simpler.
Kyla Scanlon • Gen Z and Financial Nihilism
As Reason was in the Age of Enlightenment which we are now definitively exiting, vibes are self-authorizing—viral. Whether you believe or not is precisely beside the point: vibes are belief, relieving you of the burden of believing in anything yourself.
John Ganz • Vibes Cartel
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
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
The Database dramatically expands access to information, challenging the authority of even the most venerable professional weavers of Narrative. Official narratives are just one more datapoint, one more entry in the Database, one way among many of generating a path through the entries.
L. M. Sacasas • Narrative Collapse
... See more…what we call content is not an end product. Online, content is more of a social token. It is something that people make, remake, and pass around to say something about themselves and their relationships. It might speak for them or illustrate an idea they share. It serves their conversations, and their conversations embody their relationships.
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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
“Commerce and culture are locked in an ever-tighter embrace.”