digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
In the conditions of news redundancy, the need for attitude is much more pressing than the need for news. Attitude precedes meaning in the ‘use-value’ of news supply by the media. The supremacy of attitude over meaning is an interesting postmodernist phenomenon: post-truth, actually, is pre-truth. The picture of the world - as-it-should-be always... See more
Andrey Mir • Post-truth: too good to be true
What defines orality as a cognitive and cultural trait is not vocal performance, but its opposition to literacy, which forms the dichotomy “environmental/tribal immersion vs. detachment.” Similar to the condition of primary orality, digital media enable environmental immersion.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
Media are the hardware of society—the hardware has evolved from expressing ideas to centering on identities. The software—our culture—has followed suit. Identity politics mirrors the development of media, reflecting its cultural consequences.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
We are depleted by the pace and structure of contemporary life, particularly by how spatial and temporal boundaries that provided modest respites from the demands others could place on us have been eroded by the capacities of digital technology. Now we are always on and always available, our freneticism masquerading as flexibility. We are also... See more
L. M. Sacasas • What You Get Is the World
“Commerce and culture are locked in an ever-tighter embrace.”
Rogers Brubaker • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Whether it’s a handwritten letter, a telephone call, a fax, an email, or a text, the medium through which people communicate shapes what they say and how they say it. Some mediums encourage formal speech while others encourage casual banter. Some are suited to full sentences and well-turned paragraphs; others to sentence fragments and cliches. Some... See more
Nicholas Carr • Diplomacy by WhatsApp
So: we have before us two distinct phenomena, both called “artificial intelligence,” both transformative, both rooted in attention, but profoundly different in their structure, effects, and affordances:
- The first consists of systems that externalize and perform the operations of attention—filtering information, reducing uncertainty, detecting