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
Essentially, web surfing is a form of digital hunting and gathering—with the goal of finding something to feed curiosity and share with others for social gains.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
2.5. Media literacy is the hygiene of clicks. The hygiene of clicks means picking links, bookmarks, and digital friends appropriately and with the awareness of consequences.
Andrey Mir • Eight theses on counter-digital media literacy
The hyperindividualism of our age is not going to be going back into the bottle. You’ve got to square the circle. You’ve got to let people still feel they’re independent individuals, yet they are giving themselves up to something that is awesome, greater, and more powerful that carries them into the future beyond their own existence. That’s what... See more
The Post-Individual
Narratives seek closure (the story must end). The Database is open-ended (it assimilates new data indefinitely). The Database resists the Narrative impulse to control and stabilize meaning.
L. M. Sacasas • Narrative Collapse
... See moreThis rearrangement of social and economic conditions around the pursuit of attention is, I'm going to argue, a transformation as profound as the dawn of industrial capitalism and the creation of wage labor as the central form of human toil. Attention now exists as a commodity in the same way labor did in the early years of industrial capitalism.
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It has blurred the distinctions between categories of information—distinctions of form, register, sense, and importance—that the epistemic architecture of the analog era preserved and even accentuated. Content has collapsed, as our adoption of the drab, generic term content to refer to all forms of expression testifies. Everything now has to fit
... See moreNicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
a super-stimulus system optimized to fulfill our desires.
Jon Askonas • The New Control Society
Attention is contagious. What forms of it, as individuals and as a society, do we want to cultivate? What kinds of mediums would that cultivation require?