digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
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
But if the deep roots of boredom are in a lack of meaning, rather than a shortage of stimuli, and if there is a subtle, multilayered process by which information can give rise to meaning, then the constant flow of information to which we are becoming habituated cannot deliver on such a promise. At best, it allows us to distract ourselves with the... See more
a super-stimulus system optimized to fulfill our desires.
Jon Askonas • The New Control Society
What strikes me most is the difference between people who’ve learned to construct what I call ‘containers for attention’ – bounded spaces and practices where different modes of engagement become possible – and those who haven’t. The distinction isn’t about intelligence or discipline. It’s about environmental architecture. Some people have learned... See more
Vercel Security Checkpoint
media with edges
the cultural chaos of fragmentation that displaced the comfortable universal norms of appointment television.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
So central is communication to the process of control that the two have become the joint subject of the modern science of cybernetics, defined by one of its founders as "the entire field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or in the animal
James R. Beniger • The Control Revolution by James R. Beniger
Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean “ecological” in the same sense as the word is used by environmental scientists. One significant change generates total change.
Neil Postman • Technopoly
A key method of ‘understanding media’ in the McLuhan tradition is: by examining the nature of the form, you can gain insight into the nature of the effect, and that the place to begin in examining the nature of the form is by tracing it back to its human origin.