digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
A specific state of connectivity is not transportable; therefore, it factually belongs to the platform.
Andrey Mir • The platform paradox
in today’s social media environment, identity is behavior. Every action on social media is identity signaling that serves as a request for affirmation. Signaling identity is the digital labor that turns into the perks of socialization within respective digital tribes.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
The more we accept the premise that we must be online for everything—liking, loathing, sharing—and the more we accept the tacit contract of trading privacy in exchange for app-enabled convenience, the more data points tech companies are able to hoover up about us. And with that data, they create our real digital doppelgangers—not the aspirational
... See moreNaomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Tarde contended that the ‘crowd’ – as a heterogeneous group of individuals, which can be joyful or brutal but dissolves with geographical distance – differs from the ‘public’, a dispersed, like-minded collective with shared cultural references, which historically came into existence with printing, and became established in modernity with the advent... See more
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We're developing new cognitive abilities. We just don't know what they are yet.
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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
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
If there is one thing the advent of social media has brought home to us, it is how little we think for ourselves.