the techno-social environment
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters
the techno-social environment
... See morePlatforms have imbued crowds with new qualities. They are no longer fleeting and local, but persistent and global. They engage symbiotically with influencers, but don’t require a leader or physical space to assemble. Platform affordances empowered crowds; they are now active participants in chronicling history and shaping narratives.
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The media and society can be understood as conversations - Jeff Jarvis
... See moreThe influencer's primary job is to grow an audience, a crowd of followers who will serve as eyeballs on the content as well as secondary distribution machine. Reach significantly determines to what extent the influencer makes money or accrues power, so the temptation to pepper content with the kind of bait that the algorithms will boost to a niche
The worlds we now inhabit are digitized realms incapable by their nature and design of generating a broadly shared experience of reality.
L. M. Sacasas • From Common Sense to Bespoke Realities
These artists are performing a kind of service for brands, lending their credibility and enabling the brands to “insert themselves into an existing cultural conversation.” All of these are various ways in which an artist’s work becomes branding.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
- We inhabit a techno-social environment manufactured to fracture our attention.
- The interests served by this environment in turn pathologize the resultant inattention.
- These same interests devise and enforce new techniques to discipline the inattentive subject.
L. M. Sacasas • The Pathologies of the Attention Economy
Digital technology is capitalism in hyperdrive, injecting its logic of consumption and promotion, of monetization and efficiency, into every waking minute. - Franzen
The overall digital environment is dictated by tech companies with ruthlessly capitalist, expansionary motives, which do not provide the most fertile ground for culture. While the magazine fashion editor may periodically use their ability to pick out and promote a previously unheard voice, the algorithmic feed never will; it can only iterate on
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
... See moreI've been using the term "attentional regime" to describe some set of rules, norms, or structures that govern attention in any given setting. They can be the most basic regime of turn-taking in conversation or the more complex rules of floor time in the US Senate. But whatever they are, participants have some knowledge of the rules and some level