digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
So: we have before us two distinct phenomena, both called “artificial intelligence,” both transformative, both rooted in attention, but profoundly different in their structure, effects, and affordances:
- The first consists of systems that externalize and perform the operations of attention—filtering information, reducing uncertainty, detecting
The Loom and the Weavers
... See moreThe influencer's primary job is to grow an audience, a crowd of followers who will serve as eyeballs on the content as well as secondary distribution machine. Reach significantly determines to what extent the influencer makes money or accrues power, so the temptation to pepper content with the kind of bait that the algorithms will boost to a niche
When media speed up the expression of thought, our capacity for reflective thought weakens
Digital orality: the return of speech
A specific state of connectivity is not transportable; therefore, it factually belongs to the platform.
Andrey Mir • The platform paradox
Where we had once been free to be ourselves online, we were now chained to ourselves online, and this made us self-conscious. Platforms that promised connection began inducing mass alienation.
The I in the Internet
“The environments set up by different media are not just containers for people; they are processes which shape people.”
Ezra Klein • Marshall McLuhan Was Right About Claude, Too
Identity politics is a media effect. Over time, communication media have evolved from forms that largely ignored human differences to forms that now emphasize and spotlight them.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
