digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
When media speed up the expression of thought, our capacity for reflective thought weakens
Digital orality: the return of speech
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
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.
The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays
The Faustian bargain of the digital age—free or cheap digital conveniences in exchange for our data—was only ever explained to us after it was already a done deal. And it represents an enormous and radical shift not only in how we live but also, far more importantly, in what our lives are for. We are all mine sites now, data mine sites, and despite
... See moreNaomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Writing—especially phonetic writing—cut off words from objects and actions and turned them into abstractions detached from situational needs. With this semantic detachment, the mind itself withdrew from the “here and now” and opened up to abstract thinking and contemplation.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
- We inhabit a techno-social environment manufactured to fracture our attention.
- The interests served by this environment in turn pathologize the resultant inattention.
- These same interests devise and enforce new techniques to discipline the inattentive subject.
L. M. Sacasas • The Pathologies of the Attention Economy
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
Trust in like currency and creators are trust brokers.
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