digital media ecology
The immersive, turbulent, mediatized flow.
It’s the social system technology is embedded in that matters.
digital media ecology
The timeline is no longer a source of information or social presence, but more of a mood-regulation device, endlessly replenishing itself with just enough novelty to suppress the anxiety of stopping. Scrolling has become a form of ambient dissociation, half-conscious, half-compulsive, closer to scratching an itch than seeking anything in... See more
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
On social media, passive audiences of the literacy era reversed into participants expressing thoughts and emotions as in oral communication. Algorithms track their preferences through countless identity markers. The entire design is built to reward identity signaling.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
The deeper I went, the more I noticed this phenomenon all around me: individuals not guided by legible principles or beliefs, but acting as members of groups playing yin to the other’s yang—well versus weak; awake versus sheep; righteous versus depraved. Binaries where thinking once lived.
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
us versus them tribalism
The engagement with digital flow is stimulated by hormonal rewards—evolutionary physiological mechanisms that encourage people to search for something useful and share it with others for bonding and recognition, much like real hunting and gathering.
Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
... See moreIn medieval communities…Fama was the mark of authority and reliability that attaches to a piece of information, new, gossip, and to the teller, to the subject, and to those who spread it. Fama represented reputation. It was the best means anyone had to judge truth and truth tellers apart from falsity and fantasy, from gossip and liars. It is to
On judging others reputations for reliability and diligently protecting ones own. Who do you trust and why? For what kinds of information? On what basis?