digital media ecology

Algorithms shape the flow of information and influence the narratives that users encounter. By tailoring content based on user preferences and engagement patterns, they not only reinforce existing beliefs but nudge users in sometimes terrifying directions. This selective exposure to information can reinforce biases and shape users' perceptions in

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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?

Significance is subjectivity married to collectivity.

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

“Social media is dead” is now the official tech ideology because “social media” successfully served its purpose as an alibi for the complete digitization of experience, promulgating the idea that everything is information, everything can be quantified, and that human beings can enjoy themselves in a system that doesn’t register anything qualitative... See more

The antidote to this compulsive, numbing overload will be found in deliberative friction, design patterns that introduce pause and reflection into digital interaction, or platforms and algorithms that create space for intention.

The shift from “yeah” to “yes” or vice versa, a two-hour delay instead of the usual twenty minutes, the use of exclamation points instead of periods—these minute changes can and do often signal real relational ruptures. The problem isn’t that we’re imagining things. The problem is that in learning to read these signs, we become too attuned, seeing... See more