digital media ecology
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters
digital media ecology
detextualization : the long, slow erosion of text-based cognition in a society that once treated reading as the bedrock of memory, imagination, governance, and selfhood.
Jac • From Text to Tokens
We have changed our environment enough that our current ways of understanding what’s going on no longer hold: technology and globalization have changed our information streams and our patterns of life drastically enough that the ways we calibrate around incoming information are becoming increasingly dangerous for us, and this trend will only... See more
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
The network is less a tool than a habitation, less an apparatus than an environment. We don’t just use it to get things done. We are, as Adorno foresaw, incorporated into it as components. We’re nodes, continuously receiving and transmitting signals. The ethos of the system is one of documentation and representation. We’re all jointly engaged in... See more
All the Little Data
Essentially, web surfing is a form of digital hunting and gathering—with the goal of finding something to feed curiosity and share with others for social gains.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
most of my life is inextricable from the internet, and its mazes of incessant forced connection – this feverish, electric, unlivable hell.
The I in the Internet
The question “What does it mean?” is essential to reading. Literacy legitimized questioning, an intellectual activity that could not be employed during mechanical repetition after a tradesman or in verbomotor resonance with a storyteller. Questioning the meaning of signs supplied a pattern for questioning the meaning of everything. If orality... See more
Andrey Mir • From orality to literacy: from collective indoctrination to personal inquiring (and now back)
Digital carnival is an endless performance of human extremes—emotions, ambitions, identities. In pursuit of affirmation, we craft symbolic extensions of self—digital masks—and replay ourselves in variations, again and again. Digital media carnivalize identity.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
News: We are blown hither and thither like litter before the wind. Our days are lumps of undigested experience. You have only to study what newspapers regard as news to see how we are torn and twisted by the irrelevant: in frenzy about issues that do not concern us, bored with those that do.