the techno-social environment
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters
the techno-social environment
It has blurred the distinctions between categories of information—distinctions of form, register, sense, and importance—that the epistemic architecture of the analog era preserved and even accentuated. Content has collapsed, as our adoption of the drab, generic term content to refer to all forms of expression testifies. Everything now has to fit
... See moreNicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Increasingly our tech also opens us up to new vectors of anxiety. Regardless of whether you’re working more or less, your nervous system is now plugged into a neurotic and hypersensitive globe-spanning information system that’s constantly pushing unnecessary things into your consciousness. Perversely, this information obesity actually makes us feel... See more
Brett Scott • Tech Doesn’t Make Our Lives Easier. It Makes Them Faster
The Database dramatically expands access to information, challenging the authority of even the most venerable professional weavers of Narrative. Official narratives are just one more datapoint, one more entry in the Database, one way among many of generating a path through the entries.
L. M. Sacasas • Narrative Collapse
... 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
There is consensus and cohesion within the crowds, but often not across them. Every crowd proclaimed itself the public, while it is merely a public.
Invisible Rulers
Particularly for their young core audiences, creators are the emotional centers of the new information ecosystem. What they have in common is a strong degree of parasociality—their followers feel like they know creators intimately through the screen.
Kyle Chayka • 2024 Is the Year Creators Took Over | the New Yorker
Every new medium creates a new environment. As we adapt to the environment, it shapes our perceptions and thoughts, our relationships with others, even our sense of self.
Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Postman: Technological change is ecological…One significant change generates total change.
“Each medium creates a new orientation for thought, expression, and sensibility.”
We are pantomiming our ideas and convictions rather than living them.