digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
the “ecological” effects of media—its “terraforming power” to change the human environment and so human behavior and society.
Martin Gurri • The Fifth Wave: Andrey Mir Takes on World History
The Internet provided an opportunity not only for imaginative play but for personal transformation, a liminal space between fantasy and reality, something betwixt and between. Just as the printing press brought individuality through literacy and the novel helped create the modern sense of self, the Internet fractured this self by enabling multiple... See more
The Internet as the Astral Plane. The Internet as Fairyland
This instability extends to identity itself. Where offline identity is grounded in lived experience, online identity forms through affinity and alignment. We become collections of interests, allegiances, and aesthetics. The internet’s second self becomes a curatorial project, constantly revised according to shifting community standards and platform... See more
Internet Overexposure Syndrome
A specific state of connectivity is not transportable; therefore, it factually belongs to the platform.
Andrey Mir • The platform paradox
Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean “ecological” in the same sense as the word is used by environmental scientists. One significant change generates total change.
Neil Postman • Technopoly
We are depleted by the pace and structure of contemporary life, particularly by how spatial and temporal boundaries that provided modest respites from the demands others could place on us have been eroded by the capacities of digital technology. Now we are always on and always available, our freneticism masquerading as flexibility. We are also... See more
L. M. Sacasas • What You Get Is the World
We chase numbers and icons because they’re always available, and the chase is often so immersive that it keeps us from seeing where it leads, which is often far away from what we actually want. This can lead to what the evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman calls “counterfeit fitness”: the constant, momentary “wins” that come with playing... See more
Gurwinder • Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
... 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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