digital media ecology
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters
digital media ecology
“Commerce and culture are locked in an ever-tighter embrace.”
Rogers Brubaker • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
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
In short, the technologies through which we see the public shape what we think the public is. And that, in turn, shapes how we behave politically and how we orient ourselves.
Henry Farrell • We're Getting the Social Media Crisis Wrong
detextualization : the long, slow erosion of text-based cognition in a society that once treated reading as the bedrock of memory, imagination, governance, and selfhood.
Jac • From Text to Tokens
the platform paradox. The elements of our digital personality should belong to us, but the digital account itself – our digital persona specific to this platform – is an unalienated part of the platform.
Andrey Mir • The platform paradox
If you don’t have your counterparty’s trust — or piggyback on someone who does — an exchange of ideas can’t even begin.
Casually, trust is like a currency in that way.
Casually, trust is like a currency in that way.
Mike Elias • Epistemic Reserve Notes
Trust in like currency and creators are trust brokers.
The question “What does it mean?” is essential to reading. Literacy legitimized questioning, an intellectual activity that could not be employed during mechanical repetition after a tradesman or in verbomotor resonance with a storyteller. Questioning the meaning of signs supplied a pattern for questioning the meaning of everything. If orality... See more
Andrey Mir • From orality to literacy: from collective indoctrination to personal inquiring (and now back)
Basically, a simulacrum is a representation that no longer has an actual referent; there’s no preexisting reality it refers to, it has become the reality itself.