the techno-social environment
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters
the techno-social environment
The experience of boredom is contingent. It is culturally, socially, and institutionally produced…Our age features a set of technologies and social conditions that work together to maximize our boredom if we are not constantly diverted from it.
The Sirens Call
If you don’t have your counterparty’s trust — or piggyback on someone who does — an exchange of ideas can’t even begin.
Casually, trust is like a currency in that way.
Casually, trust is like a currency in that way.
Mike Elias • Epistemic Reserve Notes
The internet's infinite private worlds at times feel more like the clan-based societies that predated individualism. But where past worlds were bound by blood, today’s are bound by interests, desires, identities, and what the algorithms governing these spaces — helmed by capitalistic KPIs —nudge us to do.
Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual
Revenge of the Followers
nytimes.com
Where we had once been free to be ourselves online, we were now chained to ourselves online, and this made us self-conscious. Platforms that promised connection began inducing mass alienation.
The I in the Internet
the web as we knew it is shoved off the page, a decades-old online civilization of websites reduced to training data for slick chatbots.
John Herrman • Will Google’s AI Plans Destroy the Media?
... See moreWe have never been able to document our lives so thoroughly as we now can with the help of digital tools, yet we feel that time is out of joint and that we've lost the thread of both our personal and collective histories. We appear to be both obsessive documenters of our experience, yet largely indifferent to or overwhelmed by the archives we
Both top down and bottom up narrative creation happens across media and social media today, and the influencer sits in the middle of the action.
Invisible Rulers
... 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