Media
Everything media related, from writing to TV
Maarten and
Media
Pluralistic: My McLuhan lecture on enshittification (30 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorowpluralistic.net
A great breakdown of enshittification and the cures to this horrible disease
Curation has replaced creation
For anyone who likes to think about music instead of just playing it in the background - read this
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25237084/floppy_still.jpg)
Floppies “force their users to confront the transience of art and information”
I had countless conversations with reporters in the pre-Elon Musk Twitter era who could not fathom doing their jobs without the site, who insisted that Twitter was where sources and scoops and true insight lay. It was utterly wrong and also completely understandable in a way that made arguing about it futile: Twitter could feel like a direct... See more
Cultural fracking
Punk Technologies are technologies in a broad sense of the term; any knowledge, technique, or tool developed or designed to augment, assist, or adapt cultural or individual norms and practices and/or make use of surrounding resources can be considered a technology. A book is a technology the same as a robot.