the techno-social environment
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters
the techno-social environment
Narrative is a tool by which we extract (or impose, depending on your perspective) meaning from the chaotic flux of being in the world
L. M. Sacasas • Narrative Collapse
If there is one thing the advent of social media has brought home to us, it is how little we think for ourselves.
Ian Leslie • How To Be Influenced
the ease of exchanging digital speech has shifted the focus of mass communication from reflections to reflexes, from substance to attitude. Social media demand that everyone relate to others, to their ideas, to their troubles and achievements—indeed, to their very existence.
Andrey Mir • The Viral Inquisitor
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
When looking at the Mirror World, it can seem obvious that millions of people have given themselves over to fantasy, to make-believe, to playacting. The trickier thing, the uncanny thing, really, is that’s what they see when they look at us. They say we live in a “clown world,” are stuck in “the matrix” of “groupthink,” are suffering from a form of
... See moreNaomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Technology doesn’t follow culture so much as culture follows technology. New forms of expression naturally arise from new media, but so do new sensibilities and new behaviors
Tim Wu, Attention Merchants
From, The Master Switch. Mid-century TV networks were probably the most powerful, centralized information system in history.
... See moreBespoke realities are made for—and by—the individual. The collision of the propaganda machine and the rumor mill gave rise to a choose-your-own-adventure epistemology: some news outlet somewhere has written the story you want to believe; some influencer is touting the diet you want to live by or demonizing the group you also hate. Other people,
The individual user relies on the information flowing through their phone to make their choices, and their decisions then feed back into the overall system.